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  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Tarleton Law, LLC), Atlanta, David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, Frederick Lewis, Alonza Whitaker, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0069

    Court reverses murder convictions because trial court erred in removing and replacing a juror who was unable to agree to a guilty verdict

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh Stevens Schrope, Elizabeth Ann Brandenburg, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, Benjamin A. Davis, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis , Lyndsey Hurst Rudder , Richard Benjamin Caplan , (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0414

    Any Error in Admitting Text Messages Sent To and From Phone Number Associated With Defendant Was Harmless

  • Goodman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric C. Crawford, (Crawford & Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Brent Cochran, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Gray, Monticello, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0306

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes but vacates a sentence over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and error admitting evidence

  • Hounkpatin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    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, Emily Rebecca Polk, (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: S22A0564

    Trial Court Properly Admitted Evidence That Defendant Assaulted Child Victim and Siblings Prior to Victim's Death

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
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    Case Number: S22A0251

    Witness's In-Court Identification of Defendant Was Not Tainted by Pretrial Identification Procedure

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  • Price v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Darius T. Pattillo, Sharon Lee Hopkins, (Flint Circuit District Attorney's Office), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0079

    No Merger Where Criminal Acts Were Separated by Deliberate Interval

  • Monroe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karin Kissiah, Michael A. Schwartz, (Georgia Capital Defender's Office), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin E. Gephardt, Robert German, Jr., (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Woodbine, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0324

    Court vacates and dismisses application for interlocutory appeal because applicant failed to challenge all bases for the denial of his request

  • Ware v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jermaine Ware, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Milledgeville, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr, (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0098

    Court vacates motion in arrest of judgment on a malice murder conviction and remands with directions to dismiss the motion as untimely.

  • Morrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1273

    Evidence of Third Party Conduct Relevant as Other-Acts Evidence to Show Defendant's Consciousness of Guilt

  • Bowen v. Noel

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, John B. Merchant, III, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1133

    Court reverses grant of relief by habeus court, concluding that defendant had not carried his burden of showing ineffective assistance of appellate counsel