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  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0568

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to trial court's denial of admission of cumulative evidence regarding victim's violent behavior

  • The State v. Gilmore

    Publication Date: 2021-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luke Anthony Martin, Leigh Ellen Patterson, Morgan Birdsong Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Ross Hamrick, Sean Justin Lowe, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Rome, for Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G1430

    Court reverses denial of admission of a video showing a drug purchase by a now-deceased confidential information, finding no Confrontation Clause violation

  • Sims v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stacey B. Sims, Oglethorpe, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Patrick Warren, Bryce Alan Johnson, (Tift Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0587

    Court affirms a trial court's dismissal of defendant's out-of-time motion to withdraw a guilty plea because the trial court lacked jurisdiction to hear that motion.

  • Walker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelsey Lynne Geary, Donald Paul Geary, (The Geary Law Firm, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Christopher Mark DeNeve, Tristan Wade Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0965

    Purported Invocation of Rights During Custodial Interrogation Was Not Unambiguous, Unequivocal, or Understandable

  • Woods v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Michael McLendon, (McLendon Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Michelle Thomas Harrison, James Bennett Threlkeld, Bradfield M. Shealy, (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0862

    Potential Prejudice From Trial Counsel's Alleged Ineffectiveness Required Remand For Review of Facts and Related Issues

  • Sims v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Henry Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0874

    Evidence Supported Jury's Inference That Crime Took Place in County Where Defendant Was Tried

  • Orr v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Ross Hamrick, Sean Justin Lowe, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Rome, David Lee Lumpkin, (Office of the Public Defender), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Leigh Ellen Patterson, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0817

    Argument Over Money Dispute Did Not Support Voluntary Manslaughter Instruction

  • Smith v. Long County Board of Elections and Registration et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-15
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S21A0591

    Trial Court Properly Considered Alleged Cumulative Voting Errors In Determining New Election Not Necessary

  • IDI Logistics, LLC v. The City of Douglasville et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn M. Zickert, Dennis John Webb, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell, & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, Joseph Alexander Brock, (Smith, Gambrell, & Russell, LLP), Alpharetta, Joseph Hodgson Fowler, (Hartley, Rowe & Fowler), Douglasville, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Theodore Paul Meeker, (Sumner Meeker, LLC), Newnan, for appellee; Joshua Adam Scoggins, (Miles Hansford & Tallant, LLC), Cumming, Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21D1267

    Court denies petitioner's application for a discretionary appeal regarding the rejection of the petitioner's rezoning application to a City

  • Alston & Bird, LLP v. Hatcher Management Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-09-07
    Practice Area: Damages | Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Robbins, Jason Alloy, Jeremy U. Littlefield, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harmon W. Caldwell, Jr., Harry W. MacDougald, Jeremy Mark Moeser, Christine O'Connell Dial Buckler, Lauren Jill Miller, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & Deloach, LLP), Atlanta, for Appellee; Mark David Johnson, Judson Herben Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, P.C.), Brunswick, Rocco Eugene Testani, (Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Michael James Eshman, (Eshman Begnaud, LLC), Decatur, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope LLP), Canton, for Amicus Appellee; Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S20G1419

    Trial Court Provided Reasoned Explanation