• King v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Richard King, (SK Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Buffy Dionne Thomas, Ashley Cecelia O’Neal, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0214

    Appellant Waived Claim Witnesses Should Not Have Been Allowed to Testify Regarding Voluntary Intoxication And Insanity Defense

  • Perez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Ruth Towne, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0276

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and trial court error in denying motions to suppress evidence

  • Taylor v. The Devereux Foundation, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Constitutional Law | Damages | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Timothy Rogers, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips William Michael D’Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr., Hilary Wayne Hunter, (Isenberg & Hewitt, PC), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Farish Barr, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, Jeff Sandman, (Webb, Daniel, Friedlander, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Maxwell Kent Thelen, Andrew Steven Ashby, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Ross Warren Bergethon, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Matthew J. Rubenstein, (Jones Day), Minneapolis, Letitia A. McDonald, Robert B. Friedman, Erin Munger, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Anna Sumner Pieschel, Philip S. Goldberg, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, David Christopher Hanson, (The Hanson Firm), Atlanta, Anthony J. Sebok, (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), New York John C.P. Goldberg, (Harvard Law School), Cambridge, for Amicus Appellee; Rosser Adams Malone, (Malone Law Office), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, Rory A. Weeks, (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Jeffrey R. White, (Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C.), Washington, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, James D. Meadows, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Jacob Edward Daly, Elissa Blache Haynes, P. Michael Freed, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.

    Case Number: S22A1060

    Statutory Cap on Punitive Damages Does Not Violate State Constitutional Right to Jury Trial

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy Dodd Roth, (Augusta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kelly J. Weathers, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A1003

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failure to Investigate and Make Arguments Relating to Murder Defendant's Mental Health

  • Kelly v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara Mattes, (Barbara Mattes, Attorney at Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gerald Lee Henderson, (Office of the District Attorney Gwinnett Judical Circuit), Lawrenceville, Jared Tolton Williams, Rebecca Ashley Wright, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, Christopher Anders George, (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0979

    Trial Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Hear State's Out-of-Term Request For Rehearing of Defendant's New Trial Motion

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  • Clark v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Kay Jefferson, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gerald Lee Henderson, (Office of the District Attorney Gwinnett Judical Circuit), Lawrenceville, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, Christopher Anders George, (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0950

    Trial Court Properly Applied Totality-of-Circumstances Test in Determining That Juvenile Waived Miranda Rights

  • Eaker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Scott Williams, (Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Williams LLC), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cliff Head, Shannon Glover Wallace, Lara Ashley Snow, (Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office), Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0875

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and failure to consider new evidence

  • Drennon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Virginia Lee Davis, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0511

    Trial Court Record Not Adequate For Review of Appellant's Claim of Denial of Right to Be Present During All of Trial

  • Lewis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, III, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Richard Benjamin Caplan, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0757

    No Showing Made That Photo Lineup Was Unduly Suggestive or That Witness Was Under Influence of Drugs

  • The State v Burton

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Patrick Dean, Shalena Cook Jones, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Martin Gregory Hilliard, (Martin G. Hilliard PC), Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0684

    State Failed to Show 16-Year-Old Defendant Knowingly and Voluntarily Waived His Miranda Rights