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  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Western Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0092

    Defendant Was Prejudiced by Admission of Evidence That Was Needlessly Cumulative and Highly Prejudicial

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh Stevens Schrope, Elizabeth Ann Brandenburg, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, Benjamin A. Davis, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis , Lyndsey Hurst Rudder , Richard Benjamin Caplan , (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0414

    Any Error in Admitting Text Messages Sent To and From Phone Number Associated With Defendant Was Harmless

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Bruce Steven Harvey, (Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, William Shawn Patrick Hammond, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0399

    Severance Properly Denied Where Separate Crimes Were Committed During Continuing Course of Criminal Violence

  • In the Interest of T.B., a Child.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yolanda Bacharach, Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Lanier Edwards, Nancy Michele Harris, Shalena Cook Jones, Brittany Lee Padgett, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, for appellee; Randee J. Waldman, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Bradford Lee Rigby, Shannon Glover Wallace, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Canton,, Cordele, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., William D. Johnson, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0287

    Insanity and Delusional-Compulsion Defenses Are Available in Most Delinquency Proceedings

  • Gude v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jordan Kerry Van Matre, (The Law Office of Jordan K. Van Matre, PC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0406

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting "In-Life" Photo Of Murder Victim Through His Mother's Testimony

  • Jordan v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Wayne Sheppard, (The Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Ruth M. Pawlak, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0171

    Admission of Photographs Did Not Fall Within Definition of Hearsay

  • Wynn v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Lynn Tyo, (Clayton County Public Defender's Office), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Juliana Sleeper, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0103

    Trial Court Did Not Plainly Err in Admitting Impeachment Testimony Made During Cross-Examination

  • General Motors, LLC v. Buchanan et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1147

    Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition

  • Thomas v. Caldwell, Warden

    Publication Date: 2022-06-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Marlin Thomas, Wrightsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Whitener Hamilton, (Shepard, Plunkett, Hamilton & Boudreaux, LLP), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1020

    Court reverses habeas court's dismissal of an application for certificate of probable cause to appeal because the petition addressed new issues that arose in re-sentencing

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin A. Davis, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory W. Edwards, Jeremy R. Hager, Harold Ronald Moroz, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0271

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to his indictment and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.