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  • Derrico v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-03
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Thelston Mosley, II, (Drew Mosley, LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Alane Penn, William Aubrey Finch, Jenna Thomas Murphy, (Forsyth County Solicitor General's Office), Cumming, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0665

    Road Rage Criminal Statutes Not Void For Vagueness

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Kraus, (Office of the Public Defender), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tracy Graham Lawson, Elizabeth A. Baker, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0373

    Trial Court's Error, If Any, In Admitting Extrinsic Act Evidence Was Harmless

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Margaret Elizabeth Bullard, (Fulton County Public Defender's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Teri Brown Walker, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0231

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Not Challenging Testimony Regarding Defendant's Failure to Come Forward With Crime Information

  • The State v. Burns

    Publication Date: 2019-07-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shannon Glover Wallace, Cliff Head, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, Randall Joseph Ivey, (District Attorney Office for Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Thomas Poole, Michael Anthony Ray, (Grisham & Poole, P.C.), Canton, for appellee. Michael Scott Carlson, (Georgia Bureau of Investigation), Decatur, D. Victor Reynolds, John Stuart Melvin, Charles Prescott Boring, John Richard Edwards, Amelia Greeson Pray, Jaret Teague Usher, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant. James L. Ford, Sr., (James Lee Ford, P.C.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1354

    Court overrules its precedent and concludes that Evidence Rule 403 does not preclude admission of witness's prior false allegations in sexual misconduct case

  • Bowman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathanial Lane Studelska, Gabrielle Amber Pittman, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, Elizabeth Morgan Kendrick, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0428

    Sufficient Evidence Established That Defendant Repeatedly Shot Officer Knowingly, Intentionally, and Not By Reason of Insanity

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  • Cochran v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine Carey Duncan, Samuel Graham Merritt, (Southwestern Circuit Public Defender's Office), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Plez Higdon Hardin, Lewis Ramon Lamb, (Southwestern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0149

    Abundance of Circumstantial Evidence Supported Conviction For Murder by Gunshot

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Jerome M. Rothschild, Jr., (Chatham County District Attorney's Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0101

    Court rejects murder defendant's evidentiary and other objections and affirms his convictions and sentence

  • Bell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Shane Howard, (McMillan & Rawlings, LLP), Sandersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Scott Orion Teague, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Henry Wayne Syms, Jr., Rebecca Ashley Wright, Kevin Richard Majeska, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0174

    Murder conviction affirmed over defendant's claim that the State failed to prove that he shot the victims

  • Hart v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L Floyd, Talking Rock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Jeffrey Langley, Samantha Lauren Barrett, (Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cleveland, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0031

    Murder convictions affirmed over defendant's challenge regarding the State's failure to prove that the victim's death was not accidental

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, (Office of The Public Defender, Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1562

    Defendant Failed to Show Prejudice From His Counsel's Undertaking to Represent Prosecutor in Separate Family Law Matter