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  • The State v. McKinney

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrician Burton, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Mike Carlson, Fani Willis, Lyndsey Rudder, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney, Atlanta Judicial Circuit), Atlanta, Christopher Carr, Paula Smith, (Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellant
    for defendant: Michael Katz, (Attorney at Law), Decatur for appellee; National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations and Georgia Gang Investigators Assoc., Jeffrey Wennar, Tucson, for AM.
    Case Number: A22A1509

    Court reverses order that excluded evidence of defendant's prior criminal gang activity and remands for admissibility determination under Rule 403 balancing test

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Jefferson, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Flynn Broady, Elizabeth York, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Samuel d’Entremont, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1297

    Court affirms convictions for kidnapping and sexual battery over defendant's challenges to admission of other acts evidence and allegations of no proof of venue

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hawkins, (The Hawkins Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa Tatum, (Deputy Chief Assistant Solicitor-General), Marietta, Barry Morgan, (Cobb Solicitor General), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0645

    Court reverses conviction for DUI less safe because trial court improperly admitted evidence of defendant's refusal to consent to a breath test

  • Pride Medical, Inc. et al. v. John Doe et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-21
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Class Actions | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Bazinet, Jonathan Peters, (Peters & Monyak, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd Poole, Bret Moore, Jon David Huffman, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Tucker, Scott McMahan, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1140

    Ample Evidence Supported Imposition of Attorney Fees and Expenses as Discovery Sanctions

  • Shropshire v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Jefferson, (Attorney At Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ruth Pawlak, Fani Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0838

    Court affirms convictions for child molestation and other offenses over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence, but vacates and remands for merger resentencing

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  • Adams et al. v. Piedmont Henry Hospital, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-03
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney Moore, (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Thomas Trask, (Trask Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Bendin, Anam Justus, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, Sharonda Boyce, Zachary Fuller, (Huff Powell Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0990

    Court reverses summary judgment for hospital in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case and revises trial court rulings on admission of expert testimony.

  • Vaughn v. Vaughn

    Publication Date: 2022-09-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Austin Buerlein, (Elovitz, Edwards, O’Nan & Buerlein, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony Zezima, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0621

    Court reverses trial court's impermissible modification of a divorce settlement decree but affirms award of certain costs due to concessions made by husband's lawyer

  • Hughes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jad Johnson, Victor Aloisio, (Office of the Public Defender, Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Arnt, Elizabeth Evans, (Assistant District Attorney), Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0991

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault over defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in relation to his insanity defense

  • Howell et al. v. Cochran

    Publication Date: 2022-09-12
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Weathington, David Hanson, Elizabeth Linginfelter, (The Weathington Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Brant, (Colom and Brant), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0913

    Court affirms denial of defendants' motion for summary judgment in a medical malpractice case, finding that testimony from plaintiff's expert was properly admitted

  • West et al. v. Bowser et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-09
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance McCoy, (The McCoy Law Firm), Cartersville, Robert Walker, (Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C.), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Luskin, Robert Noble, (Goodman, McGuffey, Lindsey & Johnson LLP), Atlanta, David Hayes, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Kathleen Simcoe, (Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0055

    Court affirms order compelling arbitration in a wrongful death matter and determines that the underlying arbitration agreement is enforceable.