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  • Gates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Foster Kramer, (Kramer & Pine), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stuart H. Hunter Patray, Daphne Jarriel Totten, Keith A. McIntyre, (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1158

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of his medical records that were seized pursuant to an ex parte court order, stating that the seizure was a privacy violation

  • Lee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, III, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Frederick Lewis, Tina G. Stanford, Cynthia Dawn McDonald, Stacey Sherrard Jackson, (Chatahoochee Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1097

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes and rejects defendant's contentions of trial court's erroneous denial of motions for mistrial and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Donnelly, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0846

    Trial Counsel Did Not Render Constitutionally Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Object to Multiple Portions of Lead Detective Testimony

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Van Thomas, II, (Andrew V. Thomas II, PC), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, James Linder Prine, Bradfield M. Shealy, Jessua Calhoun Hornsby, (Southern Judicial Circuit Office Of The District Attorney), Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0684

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of trial court error

  • Steele v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0460

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's unsupported challenge to sufficiency of evidence, but vacates assault conviction that should have merged

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  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raphael Carter, (Telfair State Prison), Helena, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0522

    Merger-Error Claims Did Not Support Untimely Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea

  • Hospital Authority of Wayne County v. Amerisourcebergen Drug Corporation, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Bunnell Smith, (Smith, Phelps & Murray), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eileen Elizabeth H. Rumfelt, Robert Foust Parsley, Elizabeth J Marquardt, (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta, Robert A. Nicholas, Shannon E. McClure, (Reed Smith LLP), Philidelphia, Enu A. Mainigi, Jennifer G. Wright, Steven Pyser, Ashley Hardin, (Williams & Connolly LLP), Washington, Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Geoffrey E. Hobart, Mark H. Lynch, Christian J. Pistilli, (Covington & Burling LLP), Washington, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Yosef G. Schaffel, Elaine P. Golin, (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), New York Elizabeth C. Helm, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, Charles C. Lifland, (O’Melveny & Myers LLP), Los Angeles, for appellee; William Wright Banks, Jr., Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, Wayne R. Beckermann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee; David Cohen, Cleveland for other party.
    Case Number: S23Q0486

    Health Agency Lacked Authority to Challenge Constitutionality of Statute Barring Post-Settlement Claims Against Pharmaceutical Companies

  • Randolph v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Michael Starosto, Jr., (Star Law, PC), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski. Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0636

    Similarities and Temporal Proximity Between Prior Robbery and Current Charged Offense Demonstrated Probative Value to Prove Intent

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eliot Jay Abt, (ABT Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Katie Alice Hingerty Borodin, (The Hingerty Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rindi L. Harbeson, William Patrick Doupé, Terry L. Lloyd, (Toombs Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0518

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, juror selection error, and ineffective assistance

  • Miller et al. v. Golden Peanut Company, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-22
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leland Hiatt Kynes, (Kynes Law, LLC), Atlanta, James Lory King, II, (The King Firm), Tifton, Bree Owens Sullivan, (The Sullivan Firm LLC), Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Adam Caplan, Timothy Brandon Waddell, (Caplan Cobb LLP), Atlanta, Danielle Corin Le Jeune, (Cozen O’Connor), Atlanta, Tia C. Ghattas, (Cozen O’Connor), Chicago,, Josh M. Greenbaum, (Cozen O’Connor), Philadelphia, Steven J. Kyle, William Randal Bryant, (Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Michael Scott Carlson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Adam Robert Abbate, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22G0905

    Court rules that expert testimony from an investigating officer in an auto accident case is subject to the same Rule 702 analysis as testimony from other expert witnesses