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  • Waters v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell Rocky Adams, (Office of the Public Defender), Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0893

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel as top a potential insanity defense

  • Clements v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ivars Lacis, (Lacis Law, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Harold Alvin Buckler, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, Lee Darragh, Kelley Martin Robertson, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0857

    Court affirms felony and malice murder convictions in the shooting death of a deputy sheriff, rejecting all challenges from co-defendants in a consolidated appeal.

  • Neason v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melissa Akins, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0956

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder convictions and firearm possession over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence

  • Pauldo v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Spencer Lee Fredericks, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cheryl Banks Hightower, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0654

    Court affirms conviction for malice murder over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Rivera v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lon Powell Kemeness, (Lon P. Kemeness), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0429

    Court reverses a rape conviction due a defective indictment but affirms a felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to admission of other acts evidence

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  • Roberts v. Cuthpert

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, or appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Christopher Waymire, Terry Eugene Williams, (Williams & Waymire, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0631

    Court holds that a party can seek costs and fees from a judge who denied a weapons carry license, finding that the judge did not have a sovereign immunity defense to the claim

  • Funvestment Group, LLC v. Robyn A. Crittenden

    Publication Date: 2023-10-05
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Leland Walker, Paul Oliver, Les A. Schneider, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julie Adams Jacobs, Ross Warren Bergethon, Logan B. Winkles, Ronald Joseph Stay, Jr., Melody Chapman, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul Richard Draper, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Christopher Scott Anulewicz, (Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP), Atlanta, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Patrick N. Silloway, James Mitchell Fucetola, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S22G1247

    Revenue Generated From Lease of Coin Operated Amusement Machines Was Exempt From Sales and Use Taxes

  • Wise Business Forms, Inc. v. Forsyth County et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George E. Butler, II, (Law Offices of George E. Butler II, LLC), Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Julie Adams Jacobs, Alkesh Bhanuprasad Patel, Logan B. Winkles, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher J. Hamilton, Gregory Aaron Meyer, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Luther Harold Beck, Jr., Mary Josephine Leddy Volkert, John Harold Zwald, (Beck Zwald & Associates LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0874

    Claim For Inverse Condemnation by Permanent Nuisance Accrued When Property Owner First Discovered Damage

  • Annunziata v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0715

    Evidence Did Not Warrant Instruction on Voluntary Manslaughter

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anita Reynolds Howard, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0595

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Not Objecting to Witness's Testimony That Defendant Hit and Threatened Her After He Committed Crime