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  • Sumrall v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A1368

    Court affirms denial of retroactive first-offender treatment and constitutional challenge to OCGA § 42-8-66

  • Miller v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, Faith Donnell Worley, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0725

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and aggravated assault over defendant's challenges to admission of prior acts evidence

  • Nabors v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Vance Patterson, (The Law Office of Brian V. Patterson, LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Sarah Jane Thomas, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Aslean Zachary Eaglin, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0610

    Court affirms convictions for murder and related crimes over defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and failure to corroborate accomplice testimony

  • Burns v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee; Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Smyrna, for Amicus Appellant; Jennifer Lauren Hyman, (Arora Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, James Matthew Bass, (Bass Legal), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S23G1192

    Court affirms that defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was not violated when law enforcement personnel listened to recorded jail calls that did not include privileged matters

  • Redding v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kennon Peebles, Jr., Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Frederick Lewis, Sadhana Pandey Dailey, Stacey Sherrard Jackson, (Chatahoochee Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0834

    Court affirms defendant's convictions for felony murder and aggravated assault, and trial court's denial of his speedy trial claim in a case involving impeachment with prior convictions

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  • Pyne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kalki Yalamanchili, (Y’Chili Law LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0670

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes, and rejects claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and improper closing argument by prosecutor

  • Wyatt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0487

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to admission of evidence of his prior attack against his ex-wife

  • The State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Cody Jeremiah Jung, (Fulton County Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0623

    Court reverses a decision transferring a case to juvenile court, holding that superior court retained jurisdiction where defendant was reindicted beyond the 180-day statutory window

  • Milliron v. Antonakakis

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Information Governance and Compliance
    Industry: Education
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Meredith Charlotte Kincaid, Anna Green Cross, (Cross Kincaid LLC), Decatur, Luke Andrews Andrews, (Poole Huffman LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Theodore Benson Randles, Mark E. Schamel, (Venable LLP), Washington, for appellee; Sarah Brewerton-Palmer, Katherine Wheeler Gamsey, Peter Crane Canfield, (Canfield Law LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24G0198

    Court determines that Open Records Act applies to individual private contractors as well as to public agencies, and reverses contrary decision and remands for further analysis

  • Wilson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Mary Catherine Norman, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., Jaeson Robert Smith, (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0526

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of trial court error regarding exclusion of testimony about other suspects