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  • Holzheuser v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Santos Fleischman, (Ross & Pines, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Edwars Buscemi, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Woodbine, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19C1565

    Admission of Digital Images of Young Girls Drawn From Websites Used by Defendant Did Not Warrant Grant of Certiorari

  • The State v. Holland

    Publication Date: 2020-05-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Woodbine, Thomas Edwars Buscemi, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Keith Higgins, (Keith Higgins, P.C.), Brunswick, for appellee. Ross Warren Bergethon, Andrew Alan Pinson, Elizabeth Ann Penland, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20A0082

    Hit-And-Run Statute Not Unconstitutional Under Either Equal Protection or Due Process Principles

  • SRM Group, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Co. of America

    Publication Date: 2020-05-14
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure | Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Frederick Schoenthaler, Neill Kinnett Wright, Ann Reinig Emery, (Schoenthaler Law Group), Atlanta, Josephine Elizabeth Graddy, (Graddy Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Turnipseed, David M. Gram, (Savell & Williams), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19G0473

    Counterclaimant Asserting Independent Counterclaim May Also Seek Attorney Fees and Expenses

  • McGarity v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Brown Dillon, (Brown & Gill, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0104

    Evidence of Defendant's Past Drug History Was Inextricably Intertwined With Other Evidence Supporting Murder Charge

  • The State v. Gates

    Publication Date: 2020-05-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Sabrina Dawn Graham, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Channell Veena Singh, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Mulvaney, Katherine L. Moss, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, Clare Melissa Gilbert, (Georgia Innocence Project), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1130

    Trial Court Properly Determined That Defendant Should Receive a New Trial Because of Discovery of New Material and Exculpatory DNA Evidence

  • Wilson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Mitchell Harrison, (Oconee Circuit Public Defender Oconee Cirucit), Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Timothy Grady Vaughn, Keely Kight Pitts, (Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Eastman, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0027

    Court affirms defendant's conviction of murdering an infant where all evidence was circumstantial

  • Glenn v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Ervin Chisholm, (Office of the Public Defender), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Moruf O. Oseni, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0058

    Court rejected murder defendant's appeal that had been based on a denial of a motion to suppress because the appellate record was incomplete

  • Mattox v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy Lee Copeland, (Rouse & Copeland, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Thomas Durden, Jr., Joe Grady Skeens, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0026

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and a due process violation

  • The State v. Remy

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, F. McDonald Wakeford, Paul L. Howard, Jr., (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon A. Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1410

    Court affirms grant of defendant's motion for immunity due to self-defense, reverses dismissal of second indictment, and remands case for further consideration

  • Watkins v. Ballinger, Warden

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin David Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, Clare Melissa Gilbert, Adam David McClay, (Georgia Innocence Project), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1506

    Court reverses denial of habeas petitioner's second petition due to later discovery of potential juror misconduct and concealment of evidence