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  • Roberts v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caitlin Elaine Angelette, Katherine Morgan Mason, (Augusta Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Scott Orion Teague, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Henry Wayne Syms, Jr., Mary Elizabeth Bitting, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1440

    Murder convictions affirmed over defendant's challenges to evidence

  • Flannigan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin David Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Teri Brown Walker, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1209

    Murder conviction affirmed after court rejects defendant's arguments on trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Wainwright v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of The Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Arthur C. Walton, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm), Atlanta, Peter Keith Johnson, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), DeKalb, Decatur,, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1221

    No error when trial court proceeds with evidence in the absence of defendant's lead counsel

  • Kennedy v. Hines

    Publication Date: 2019-02-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore, Mathew Gilbo, (Mercer Law School), Macon, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1391

    Habeus order reversed where record showed that trial court did not improperly insert itself into negotiations for a voluntary guilty plea.

  • Hernandez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, Gerald Mason, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1307

    Court Affirms Conviction of Murderer Who Challenged Venue Where Murderer Shot Victim in Moving Vehicle and State Introduced No Direct Evidence of Shooting's Location but Established That Abduction and Recovery of Body Occurred in County of Conviction

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  • Blake v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-12-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Bonner, Jr. (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; Deborah D. Wellborn, Helen Virginia Peters Pott, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur; Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm) Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1162

    Trial court can declare a mistrial with no attachment of double jeopardy when it finds a manifest necessity to do so.

  • Welbon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-12-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Joseph Kurien, (Office of The Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Vanessa Therese Sassano, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, F. McDonald Wakeford, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1143

    No ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel's failure to move to strike a juror did not alter the final number of qualified jurors.

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-11-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Troy Edward Golden, (Dougherty Circuit Public Defender's Office), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Melinda April Wynne, Gregory W. Edwards, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0775

    Trial judge's comment on evidence was not sufficient basis to grant a new trial on a felony murder conviction

  • Hinton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-11-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, Roderick B. Wilkerson, Shannon Elysia Hodder, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0804

    No trial court error in issuing separate sentences for felony murder and attempted robbery.