• Coverstone v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace Rogers, (Burns Law Group PC), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Marietta, Cliff Head, Damion Overstreet, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1619

    Court affirms denial of suppression of evidence seized during a warrantless vehicle search, finding probable cause based on the totality of circumstances amid legal CBD possession

  • The State v. Gunsby

    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sherry Boston, Thomas Williams, Joanna Helsby, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, Jason McLendon, (McLendon Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1444

    Court affirms orders suppressing evidence improperly obtained by police misrepresentations in an affidavit for a warrant, and denying defendant's motion to dismiss certain charges

  • Combs v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, (John Monroe Law, P.C.), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Langley, (District Attorney), Blairsville, Francis Moran, (Lumpkin County District Attorney’s Office), Dahlonega, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1704

    Court affirms one conviction for theft by conversion by a business partner but reverses a second conviction due to lack of evidence that funds were not used for business purposes

  • Shackelford et al. v. Georgia Department of Public Safety

    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Jordan, (Adams Jordan & Treadwell, P.C), Milledgeville, Savanna Roughen, (Adams, Jordan & Herrington, P.C.), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Kimberly Schwartz, (Assistant District Attorney), Marietta, Angela Cusimano, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1649

    Court affirms dismissal on sovereign immunity grounds of negligence claims against Department of Public Safety for injuries that resulted from a collision in a high-speed police pursuit

  • Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans v. Downs

    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker Chandler, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Buckley, Taylor Hensel, (Buckley Christopher, PC), Atlanta, Bennett Bryan, Laura Johnson, (DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0663

    Court clarifies that organizations do not have standing but individuals plaintiffs do have standing to challenge removal of a Confederate monument, and remands for analysis of sovereign immunity issues

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  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Katie Borodin, Eliot Abt, (The Abt Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Bruce Harvey, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tuttle Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorneys Office), Eatonton, Christian May, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit), Greensboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1317

    Court affirms conviction for drug trafficking over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of trial counsel

  • Pennington et al. v. Bridge Senior Living, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-05
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Gewirtz, Eric Hertz, (Eric J Hertz, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Parks Stone, (Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0883

    Court affirms summary judgment in a premises liability case involving a fatal fall at an assisted living facility, finding that injured party had equal knowledge and should have been aware of a hazard

  • Felts et al. v. Thaxton

    Publication Date: 2023-11-30
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Huestis, Amy BeMent, (Blasingame Burch Garrard & Ashley, PC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Camp, (Attorney at Law), Athens, Susanne Burton, Lexington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0662

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part a directed verdict against a party's challenge to an annuity beneficiary change, finding that the jury should evaluate an undue influence claim

  • State v. Scott

    Publication Date: 2023-11-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, Virginia Davis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: F. Rockwell, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Mark Yurachek, (The Law Offices of Mark Allen Yurachek & Associate), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0844

    Court dismisses State's appeal where trial court entered a shorter sentence than the State had negotiated, concluding that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the State's appeal

  • Phelps v. Phelps

    Publication Date: 2023-11-28
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia Shewmaker, (Shewmaker & Lewis, LLC), Peachtree Corners, for appellant.
    for defendant: Beverly Cohen, (Attorney at Law), Roswell, Stephen Sikes, (Law Offices of Scot Sikes), Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0646

    Court vacates and remands declaratory judgment that modified an original decree in a divorce case over division of military retirement