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  • Raines v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Atteeyah Eshe Hollie, Mark Aaron Loudon-Brown, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin David Coker, Brittany Ashton Fallin, Scott L. Ballard, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Center, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0181

    Judge May Make Specific Determination Whether Juvenile Is Irreparably Corrupt Before Imposing LWOP Sentence

  • Stepp-McCommons v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0254

    Evidence Supported Trial Court's Refusal to Instruct on Accident or Lesser Included Offenses

  • Franzen et al. v. Downtown Development Authority of Atlanta et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Government | Land Use and Planning | Project Finance
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carranza M. Pryor, (The Pryor Law Firm), Atlanta, John Floyd Woodham, (Woodham Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew James Calvert, Laura T. Wagner, (Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP), Atlanta, Robert Sparks Highsmith, Douglass Payton Selby, (Hunton & Williams, LLP), Atlanta, Alvin LaMont Kendall, (The Kendall Law Firm), Atlanta, Keith M. Wiener, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S20A0328

    City of Atlanta Had Statutory and Constitutional Authority to Finance Redevelopment Project Through Infrastructure Fees

  • Strong v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sydney Rene Strickland, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joyette Marie Holmes, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0270

    Admission of Voluminous Other-Acts Evidence of Defendant's Past Violent Acts Was Prejudicial Error

  • Burney v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brad Gardner, Emily J. Gilbert, (Georgia Capital Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Dawn Marie Baskin, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Gray, Stephen Andrew Bradley, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Milledgeville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0216

    Defendant Who Was Not Diligent In Seeking Medical Examiner's Records Could Not Claim Brady Violation

  • In the Matter of James Caleb Clarke, III.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-24
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Heidi Manroe Faenza, (Supreme Court of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Caleb Clarke, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20Z0712

    Attorney Who Voluntarily Surrendered His License After Engaging in Misconduct May Be Readmitted After Demonstrating Rehabilitation

  • Gardhigh v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Ross Hamrick, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Luke Anthony Martin, Leigh Ellen Patterson, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0227

    Trial Court Was Authorized to Deny Voluntary Manslaughter Defendant's Pretrial Motion for Immunity From Prosecution; Court Properly Found That Defendant Did Not Act in Self-Defense

  • Newman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0409

    Trial Counsel Was Not Ineffective in Failing to Object to Prior Convictions From Years Ago Being Admitted Into Evidence at Trial for Impeachment Purposes

  • Tumlinson v. Dix

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jordan Kerry Van Matre, (The Law Office of Jordan K. Van Matre, PC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Fortune, (Beck, Owen & Murray), Griffin, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1277

    Habeas Court Erred in Concluding That it Lacked Authority to Consider Merits of Defendant's Petition for Pre-trial Habeas Relief

  • Medina v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, (D Lowell Thomas PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Alana Jane Driscoll, (Dekalb County District Attorneys Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0505

    Trial Court's Mistrial Declaration After the Jury Returned and Published its Verdict on a Count Renders Ineffectual Any Attempt to Declare a Mistrial on That Count