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  • Wood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A1063

    Court affirms murder conviction, rejecting challenge to exclusion of evidence of victim's reputation for violence by defendant who suffered from battered person syndrome

  • Weston v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A1069

    Court affirms malice murder conviction based on circumstantial evidence and defendant's behavior, rejecting defendant's challenge to sufficiency of circumstantial evidence

  • Mills v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A1021

    Court affirms felony murder conviction, rejecting defendant's self-defense claim and challenge to admission of other acts evidence

  • Hollis et al. v. City of Lagrange

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A0963

    Court vacates dismissal of complaint challenging city's utility charges as unconstitutional taxes and remands with direction for further review

  • In the Matter of Austin O. Jones

    Publication Date: 2024-12-20
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Austin O. Jones, (Jones Law Firm), Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lori Epps Anderson, William Dallas NeSmith, Russell D. Willard, Paula J. Frederick, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S25Y0142

    Court Accepts Attorney's Voluntary Surrender of His Law License After Felony Convictions for Possession of Child Pornography

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  • Garcia v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel J. Sliger, (McDonald & Cody, LLC), Alto, Charles Madden Cork, III, (Law Offices of Charles M. Cork, III), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, Lauren Warbington Fletcher, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele,, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1161

    Court Dismisses Appeal Based on a Constitutional Due Process Challenge to Statutory Service of Process Provisions in a Civil Forfeiture Case Because Defendant Had Been Otherwise Served

  • In the Matter of Eston William Hood, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-20
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wolanda R. Shelton, Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James E. Spence, Jr., (Wilson, Morton & Downs, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Catherine Koura, (Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP), Atlanta, John Ryd Bush Long, (John R. B. Long, P.C.), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y1267

    Court issues atwo-year suspension of an attorney's law license for unauthorized practice of law and false statements during Bar investigations

  • In the Matter of Christian Aaron Coomer.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-20
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Andreea N. Morrison, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Johannes S. Kingma, (Stites & Harbison, PLLC), Atlanta, Dennis T. Cathey, (Cathey & Strain, LLC), Cornelia, Mark Daniel Lefkow, (Copeland, Stair, Valz & Lovell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Adam Marshall Hames, (The Hames Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y1244

    Court Suspends Attorney for Two Years Over Professional Misconduct Involving Vulnerable Client

  • In the Matter of Jeffrey Jackson.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Johannes S. Kingma, Evan Walker Elam, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, Jennifer Lauren Hyman, (Arora Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, William Van Hearnburg, Jr., William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, Russell D. Willard, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S25Y0009

    Court Rejects Attorney's Petition for Voluntary Discipline Due to Unresolved Factual Issues in Client Grievances

  • In the Matter of David Carleton Head.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Carleton Head, Waco, for appellee; LaVonda Rochelle DeWitt, Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y1274

    Attorney Disbarred for Misdemeanor Theft by Conversion Involving Vulnerable Client