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  • Martinez-Arias v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Bradford Morris, Jr., Matthew Gerard Leipold, (Northeastern Circuit Public Defender's Office), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, Anna Victoria Fowler, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney's Office), Gainesville, for appellee; Katie Anne Skeehan, (The Sonoda Law Firm), Atlanta, Peter J. Wpsnik, (Wosnik Law, LLC), Monroe, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0150

    Court determines that testimony about characteristics of an ethnic group was not relevant and should not have been admitted, but error in admitting it was harmless

  • Grier v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, F. McDonald Wakeford, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1249

    Admission of Child's Hearsay Statements at Murder Trial Satisfied Requirements of Child Hearsay Statute

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1242

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Evidence of Guns and Ammunition Found When Defendant Was Arrested

  • Morrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1273

    Evidence of Third Party Conduct Relevant as Other-Acts Evidence to Show Defendant's Consciousness of Guilt

  • Fortson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1038

    Circumstantial Evidence Sufficient to Allow Jury to Infer Defendant Shared Common Criminal Intent With Known Perpetrators

  • Anderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0981

    Photo Lineup Administered to Witness Was Not Impermissibly Suggestive

  • Maddox v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, 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: S21A0967

    Defendant Waived Claim of Error in Regard to Simultaneous Jury and Bench Trials for Defendant and Co-Defendant

  • Shelton v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole Jones, (Jones Federal & Appellate, LLC), Douglasvile, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Dalia Racine, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney’s Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0935

    Defense Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Seek Mental Health Evaluation of Defendant's Criminal Responsibility at Time of Crime

  • Sanders v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Wilson, (Wilson, Morton & Downs, LLC), Decatur, R. Stephen Roberts, (R. Stephen Roberts, PC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tristan Wade Gillespie, Tasha Helen Pennant, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0983

    Trial Court Lacked Authority to Nolle Pros Indictment After Defendant Filed Notice of Appeal From Denial of Special Demurrer

  • In the Matter of Anthony O. Van Johnson.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-28
    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, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Warren Raymond Hinds, (Warren R. Hinds, P.C.), Roswell, for appellee; Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Samuel Jeffrey Rusbridge, (Dyer & Rusbridge, P.C.), Canton, for other party.
    Case Number: S22Y0282

    Six-Month Suspension Appropriate Discipline For Attorney Who Admitted to Rules Violations in Two Civil Matters