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  • The State v. Goff

    Publication Date: 2020-04-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean Gamble, (Brunswick Circuit Public Defender's Office), Brunswick, George Kevin Davis, (Office of the Public Defender), Augusta, Katherine Morgan Mason, (Augusta Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0248

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Advising Defendant Not to Testify at Trial

  • Bundel v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce Steven Harvey, (Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey), Atlanta, Stephen M. Katz, (The Katz Law Firm-GA., LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joyette Marie Holmes, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Jesse David Evans, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0173

    Defendant Never Filed Particularized Request For Hearing On His Motion For New Trial

  • Thomas v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, III, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1503

    Jury Was Authorized to Reject Defendant's Claim of Self-Defense and Find Him Guilty of Malice Murder

  • The State v. Lane

    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1424

    Georgia Courts Considering Whether a Criminal Defendant Is Entitled to a New Trial Should Consider the Prejudicial Effect of Trial Court Errors and Deficient Counsel Performance

  • The State v. Bryant

    Publication Date: 2020-03-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Abigail Beth Long, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Scott Byrne, (Chatham County Public Defender's Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1145

    Court vacates order that excluded evidence in a murder case and remands for clarification of trial court's findings on bad faith and prejudice

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  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Kwashnak, (Public Defender's Office), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Plez Higdon Hardin, Lewis Ramon Lamb, (Southwestern Circuit District Attorney), Americus, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1266

    Court affirms aggravated assault and felony murder convictions but vacates aggravated assault sentence that should have merged.

  • Wells v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reggie Allen Lampkin, (R. A. Lampkin, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1592

    Defendant's Confrontation Rights Were Not Violated When Court Admitted Inculpatory Statements of Accomplice Who Testified at Trial

  • White v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Gladston Daniell, Jocelyn Powell Daniell, (Daniell Law Firm, LLC), Warner Robbins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, III, Gregory Warren Winters, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Scott Orion Teague, (Douglas County District Attorney Office), Douglasville, for appellee. Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore, Brian Kammer, Mathew Gilbo, (Mercer Law School), Macon, Andrea Lynn Clark, Gabrielle Lynn Biggs, (Mercer Habeas Project), Macon, Mark Aaron Loudon-Brown, Atteeyah Eshe Hollie, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, Melissa D. Carter, Randee J. Waldman, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, Stephen Michael Reba, (The Law Office of Stephen M. Reba, LLC), Decatur, Kaitlyn E Barnes, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S19A1004

    Court affirms malice murder conviction and life sentence without parole

  • Chavez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Leslie Anna Coots, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1573

    Evidence Did Not Support Conviction for Possession of Firearm by First-Offender Probationer

  • Denson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard C. Hagler, (Hagler, Jackson & Walters), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, George Epps Lipscomb, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1396

    Identification Testimony, Although Not Corroborated by Physical Evidence, Was Sufficient to Support Malice Murder, Armed Robbery Convictions