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  • Georgia Department of Human Services et al. v. Addison et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-09-27
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Andrew Ferenchick, (The Law Office of Kevin S. Cauley, LLC), Cairo, Gilbert J. Murrah, (Law Office of Gilbert J. Murrah, P.C.), Bainbridge, for appellee. Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block, (Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc.), Decatur, Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta, David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S18A0803

    Court Vacates Decision Invalidating Georgia's Child Abuse Registry in Favor of Resolution by Administrative Proceedings

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chaunda Brock, (Brock Law, LLC.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Burke Olivia Doherty, Michael V. Snow, A.D.A., (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1026

    Court Affirms Murder Conviction of Man Who Claimed That He Accidently Killed His Girlfriend

  • Frisby v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-09-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher D. Frisby, (Coffee Correctional Facility), Nicholls, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christine Sieger Barker, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0777

    Court Rejects Untimely Appeal of Murder Conviction

  • McCullough v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teri Lynn Doepke (The Doepke Law Firm, LLC), Covington, Joseph Blum, Atlanta, 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: S18A0855

    Court Rejects Challenge to Conviction by Man Who Murdered Father and Great-Aunt but Remands for Resentencing

  • The State v. Herrera-Bustamante

    Publication Date: 2018-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rosanna M. Szabo, Daniel J. Porter, (Office of The Gwinnett County Solicitor General), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ramon Alvarado, (The Law Office of Ramon Alvarado), Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0703

    DUI defendant failed to preserve evidentiary challenge

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  • Stripling v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Aimee F. Sobhani, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta; Arthur C. Walton (Fulton County Courthouse), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0176

    Accomplice Corroboration Instruction Not Required Where Witnesses Weren't Accomplices in Charged Crime

  • Thompson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Damarius Thompson, Helena, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Aimee F. Sobhani (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Burke Olivia Doherty (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0497

    Prior Inconsistent Statements Properly Admitted to Impeach Testimony of Reluctant Prosecution Witness

  • Gadson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler R. Conklin (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta; Arthur C. Walton, Arthur C. Walton (Fulton County Courthouse), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0123

    Murder defendant failed to show harm resulting from the trial court's error in failing to give a certain jury charge and thus failed to prove plain error.

  • Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Foundation

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry R. Chalmers, Megan Poitevint Mitchell (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Nathan L. Garroway, Mark Adam Silver (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Jennifer Colangelo, Christopher M. Carr, Russell David Willard, Annette M. Cowart (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17G1676

    The Court of Appeals erred in ruling that all records that are exempted from the Open Records Act's general disclosure requirement under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72 (a) are prohibited from disclosure to the public.

  • Carr v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amber Lee Connell (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Ringgold; David James Dunn Jr. (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr. (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette; Clayton McLean Fuller (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Ringgold, for appellee. Christopher M. Carr, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Ross Warren Bergethon, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith (Department of Law), Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0100

    The trial court erred in holding that O.C.G.A. § 17-7-130 (c) is constitutional and violated defendant's right to due process when it ordered that he be detained for inpatient evaluation solely because he had been charged with committing violent crimes and found mentally incompetent to stand trial.