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  • Glenn v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Harry Steven Ruth, (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0683

    Trial Court Properly Permitted Lay Witnesses to Identify Defendant in Motel Surveillance Video

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Devlin Cooper, Ashley A. Cooper, (Cooper, Barton & Cooper, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Cara Raye Fiore, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, Scott Orion Teague, (Douglas County District Attorney Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0643

    Court affirms felony murder conviction that was entered pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement.

  • Bourassa v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-08-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Michael Reba, (The Law Office of Stephen M. Reba, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ryan Reese Leonard, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1136

    Court vacates ruling suppressing evidence, and remands case for reconsideration of defendant's standing to move to suppress

  • The State v. Mondor

    Publication Date: 2019-08-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. Victor Reynolds, Amelia Greeson Pray, Patricia Gail Hull, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Patrick Semrau, (Semrau & Burns, Attorneys at Law), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0209

    Court reinstates vehicular homicide and hit-and-run indictment and affirms exclusion of evidence of victim's failure to wear a seatbelt.

  • Budhani v. State

    Publication Date: 2019-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Miguel Marc Debon, (The Debon Law Group, PC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jillian Rachael Hall, Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0976

    Court affirms drug possession charges over defendant's indictment and evidentiary objections.

  • Brant v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Clayton Culp, (Waycross Circuit Public Defender {retired]), Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Elemuel Barnhill, Ian Louis Sansot, Michelle Chapman McIntire, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0047

    Court affirms dismissal of criminal defendant's appeal due to his appeal waiver in his plea agreement

  • Boyd v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Scott Carter, Allison Kathleen Parrish, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, Walter Cliff Howard, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0018

    Felony murder conviction affirmed over defendant's multiple challenges

  • Venturino v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0166

    Admission of Gruesome Autopsy Photos Is Now Governed By General Principles of Relevance and Prejudice

  • Swanson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, John Arthur Warr, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0360

    Court reverses felony murder conviction due to ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Milliken & Company v. Georgia Power Company

    Publication Date: 2019-07-01
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stevan A. Miller, Lisa Renee Richardson, (Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, Matthew D. Friedlander, Laurie Webb Daniel, Phil George, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Howard Brewton, (Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier), Augusta, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, Hugh Brown McNatt, Brooke Walker Gram, Tyler P. Bishop, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta, David A. Dial, Carol Patrick Michel, Thomas J. Strueber, (Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0876

    Court vacates and remands decisions that had incorrectly applied the Georgia anti-indemnity statute.