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  • Hightower v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-09
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica M. Sully, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, Stephen Randall Scarborough, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., Ruth M. Pawlak, Simone Nathania Hylton, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0870

    COVID-19 Emergency Was Manifest Necessity Justifying Declaring Mistrial Over Defendant's Objection

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (The Appellate Division - Georgia Public Defender Council), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1202

    Jurors' Alleged Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages During Lunch Break Was Immaterial and Non-Injurious Irregularity

  • State of Georgia et al. v. Federal Defender Program, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Criminal Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Adams Jacobs, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Sabrina Dawn Graham, Paula Khristian Smith, Jonathan David Loegel, Brooke Heinz Chaplain, Christopher M. Carr, Logan B. Winkles, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronan Patrick Doherty, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, John H. Fleming, (Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan), Atlanta, Ann Grunewald Fort, (Eversheds Sutherland LLP), Atlanta, Michael Adam Caplan, Julia Blackburn Stone Cameron Blaine Roberts, (Caplan Cobb LLP), Atlanta, Susan Jill Benton, Monet Brewerton-Palmer, (Federal Defender Program), Atlanta, for appellee; Patrick Mulvaney, Michael Boland Admirand, Ryan Primerano, (Southern Center For Human Rights), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee; Anna Marie Arceneaux, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S22A1099

    E-Mail Exchange Between Deputy Attorney General and Capital Defense Attorneys Was Contract Sufficient to Waive Sovereign Immunity

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Richard Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0969

    Defendant's Motion to Sever Trial Was Properly Denied

  • Simmons v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, Robert L. Sirianni, Jr., George William Thomas, (Brownstone P.A.), Winter Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert German, Jr. Charles Keith Higgins, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0620

    Jury Instructions Were Not Faulty as to Rule Requiring Corroboration For Confessions

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  • Pritchett v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Weldon Terry Haygood, Jr., (The Office of the Appellate Defender), Rome, Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Marianne Maxwell Gelakoska, (Office of the District Attorney), Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0809

    Court affirms conviction for malice murder over challenges to sufficiency of evidence and admission of other-acts evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Ann Brandenburg, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, Anita Reynolds Howard, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0764

    Any Error in Failing to Instruct on Accomplice Corroboration Requirement Had No Effect on Trial Outcome

  • Lee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-26
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Kleinrock, (Law Office of Lynn M. Kleinrock), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0720

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Object to Trial Evidence Presented Against Defendant

  • Downer v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thea Adele Delage, Jerilyn Lyshette Bell, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George R. Christian, James E. Staples, Jr., (Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0632

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's multiple contention of evidentiary and trial court error

  • Coe et al. v. Proskauer Rose, LLP

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice | Tax
    Industry: Accounting | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Jeven Robinson Sloan, (Loewinsohn Deary Simon Ray LLP), Dallas, Harry W. MacDougald, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & Deloach, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Mark G. Trigg, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Shari Lynn Klevens, (Dentons US LLP), Washington, David M. Lederkramer, (Proskauer Rose), New York Lisa S. Blatt, (Williams & Connolly LLP), Washington, for appellee; Johannes S. Kingma, Jeffrey Charles Hoffmeyer, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1250

    Material Factual Dispute Existed as to When Clients Learned Law Firm Was Not Independent of Client's Accounting Firm