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  • Dixon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John William Howe (Law Office of John W. Howe), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Rosemary M. Greene, Sharon Moyer Fox, Andrew Dale Garland (Cherokee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1475

    Pretermitting whether the prosecutors question on cross-examination about whether the witness had observed defendants talking and laughing during a break was, in fact, improper, the trial court fully complied with O.C.G.A. § 17-8-75 and did not abuse its discretion in refusing to grant a mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct.

  • Edokpolor et al. v. Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation

    Publication Date: 2017-12-26
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph H. King, Jr. (Joseph H. King, Jr., P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: LaTisha Dear Jackson, Jeffrey Emery Tompkins, Gerond Jullian Lawrence (Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0429

    The Court of Appeals erred in holding that a judgment that resolves all of the issues in a case except the amount to be awarded for the expenses of service of process under O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 (d) is a final judgment.

  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan P. Lockwood (Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn (Department of Law), Atlanta; Andrew J. Ekonomou (The Lambros Firm, LLC), Atlanta; Jacquelyn Lee Johnson (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Woodbine, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1412

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for malice murder and other crimes after he shot his ex-girlfriend's 15-year-old son when the woman ended their relationship to devote more time to the child.

  • Bozzie v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Micah Jay Gates (Office of the Public Defender for the Conasuaga Judicial Circuit), Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Susan Alexandra Beck, Dalton; Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr. (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1539

    The trial court did not plainly err in admitting photographs of the victiman in-life photograph and numerous photographs of his dead bodyand certain alleged hearsay statements in defendant's trial for malice murder and other crimes after he intentionally hit the victim with his truck, as admission of one in-life photograph did not affect the outcome of the trial given the strength of the evidence, the photographs of the victim's dead body were admissible and the alleged hearsay was cumulative of other evidence.

  • In The Matter Of April Dabney-Froe.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren Raymond Hinds (Warren R. Hinds, P.C.), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17Y1823

    The Supreme Court accepted an attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of her license to practice law arising out of her multiple failures to promptly give clients an accounting of settlement proceeds, disburse settlement funds, and/or pay medical bills in her clients cases.

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  • In re Formal Advisory Opinion No. 16-2.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-20
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, III, John Joseph Shiptenko (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
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    Case Number: S17U0553

    The Supreme Court approved Formal Advisory Opinion No. 16-2, which addresses whether an attorney who has been appointed to serve both as legal counsel and as guardian ad litem for a child in a termination of parental rights case can advocate termination over the child's objection.

  • In The Matter Of Nolen Arthur Hamer.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nolen Arthur Hamer (Hamer Law Firm), Cumming, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta; Jessica Oglesby, Atlanta; Thomas L. Holder (Long & Holder), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17Y1988

    The Supreme Court disbarred an attorney after previously rejecting his petition for voluntary discipline, in which he sought a Review Panel reprimand for his admitted violations of several of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.

  • Anthony v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reid G. Kennedy (Law Offices of Kennedy and Kennedy), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Richard Edwards, D. Victor Reynolds (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0989

    The evidence, including eyewitness identification, supported defendant's convictions for malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and he failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims as, among other things, post-trial counsel's subsequent disbarment did not itself show ineffective assistance in defendant's particular case.

  • Diversified Holdings, LLP v. City of Suwanee

    Publication Date: 2017-12-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Parks Benson (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Carothers, Amy Bryant Cowan, Thomas Monroe Mitchell (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1140

    The trial court properly affirmed a local zoning boards denial of landowner's application to rezone certain property, finding that the denial was not arbitrary or capricious because the propertys current zoning was substantially related to the publics health, safety, morality and welfare.

  • Hodges v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wanda Sherelle Jackson (Wanda S. Jackson, PC), East Point, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Scott Orion Teague, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Louie Craig Fraser, Kelli Maria Adams (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0711

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for felony murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault but the Court vacated his sentence because the trial court erred in failing to merge his conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon into his armed robbery conviction for sentencing purposes.