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  • Golden v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1273

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and other trial court evidentiary rulings

  • Lanier v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Earle Johnston Duncan, III, (Attorney at Law), Darien, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, John B. Johnson, Thomas Edward Buscemi, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1192

    Court affirms defendant's convictions for murder and other crimes over contentions of insufficient evidence, ineffective assistance, and evidentiary errors

  • Beck v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek M. Wright, (Derek M. Wright, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tasha Monique Mosley, Karen Smith Barbour, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1152

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contentions of juror misconduct and trial court error over jury instructions and denial of certain evidence

  • Clark v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eddie Clark, Trion, for appellant.
    for defendant: Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cedartown, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1151

    Court vacates trial court's dismissal of murder defendant's motion for an out-of-time and remands case for an evidentiary hearing

  • In the Matter of Thomas William Veach.

    Publication Date: 2020-12-23
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas William Veach, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21Y0168

    Court Imposes 18-Month Suspension on Attorney Who Failed to Pay Amounts Due to Lienholder; Court Considered Attorney's Mental and Emotional Issues at Time of Misconduct

  • Woods v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S21A0115

    Court Lacks Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over Challenges to the Correctness of its Previous Decisions; Appellant's Equal Protection Argument Does Not Invoke Court's Appellate Jurisdiction

  • Thornton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jad Baskin Johnson, David James Dunn, Jr., Victor Philip Aloisio, III, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Megan Sandra Deitz, A.D.A., Christopher Allen Arnt, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, for appellee. Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S20G0613

    Game Warden Was Authorized to Limit Sound Emitted by Car Stereo; Evidence at Trial Was Sufficient to Sustain Convictions for Obstruction

  • Hughes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly Laverne Copeland, (Kimberly L. Copeland & Associates, LLC), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1309

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Find Defendant Guilty for Felony Murder; Trial Court Did Not Give Incorrect or Incomplete Charges on Felony Murder or Proximate Cause

  • Smallwood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Keegan Christian Gary, (Paulding County Public Defender's Office), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Donald R. Donovan, Elisabeth Marie Giuliani, Anthony Brett Williams, (Paulding County District Attorney's Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1274

    Conviction for Entering an Automobile Affirmed; OGCA §16-8-18 Is Not Unconstitutionally Vague and Does Not Encourage Arbitrary Enforcement

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Robert M. Crawford.

    Publication Date: 2020-12-21
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy E. Barnes, John Ross Bartholomew, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Virgil L. Brown, (Virgil L. Brown & Associates), Zebulon, James Gabriel Banks, (The Weathington Firm), Atlanta, Robert Charles Iverson McBurney, (Superior Court of Fulton County), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18Z1636

    Court dismisses action for judicial sanctions and declines to impose lifetime ban on former Judge who allegedly violated State Judicial Rules of Conduct