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  • Sharpe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Mack Taylor, (T. Mack Taylor, LLC), Evans, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Samuel H. Altman, John Alexander Fitzner, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1399

    Felony Murder Defendant's Trial Counsel Was Not Ineffective for Failing to Request a Poll of the Jury

  • Gray v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, John H. Petrey, (Petrey Law, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Otobong U. Ekpo, Destiny H. Bryant, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee. James C. Bonner, Jr., (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Santos Fleischman, (Ross & Pines, LLC), Atlanta, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Lawrence Jason Zimmerman, (The Law Office of Lawrence J. Zimmerman), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20G0192

    Trial Court Does Not Have Jurisdiction to Modify a Sentence Outside the One-Year Period After a Sentence Is Imposed, When the Motion to Modify Is Filed Within the One-Year Period

  • Coates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Faith Arndt, (Newton County Public Defender's Office), Covington, Anthony Scott Carter, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Walton for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1128

    Evidence Is Sufficient for Jury to Find That Appellant Committed Malice Murder Either as the Shooter or as a Party to the Crime

  • The State v. Stephens

    Publication Date: 2020-11-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Noah Jared Abrams, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Michael Burns, Jr., (The Law Office of David M. Burns, Jr.), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0714

    Photo Showing Defendant Holding Gun Magazine Was Properly Found Inadmissible at Murder Trial

  • Meheux v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade Nichols Krueger, (Public Defender's Office), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Michelle Thomas Harrison, Bradfield M. Shealy, (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0963

    Trial Court Erred in Dismissing Untimely Amended Motion for a New Trial, Rather Than Deciding It On the Merits

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  • Love v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Kang, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0802

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Denying Malice Murder Defendant's Motion to Suppress Statements to Law Enforcement or in Sentencing Him as a Juvenile to Serve Life Without Parole

  • Marshall v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacob Dennis Rhein, (Law Offices of Jacob D. Rhein), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0697

    Court affirms defendant's malice murder and other convictions but vacates a firearm possession conviction due to a merger error

  • Russell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Gaddis Speights, (Speights Law, PC), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cliff Head, Shannon Glover Wallace, Rachel Marie Ashe, (Cherokee County Office of the Solicitor General), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0910

    Evidence Showed That Defendant Reinitiated Police Interview After Previously Invoking Right to Counsel

  • Snipes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Allen Adams, (Griffin Circuit Public Defender Office), Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, Elizabeth A. Baker, (Fayette County District Attorney's Office), Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0934

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Strike Investigator's Damaging Testimony on Cross-Examination

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-09-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Rupp Cribbs, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Juliana Sleeper, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0855

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's multiple contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel