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  • Snellings v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Kenner, (Law Offices of Robert Kenner, Jr.), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alisha Johnson, Alicia Gant, (Rockdale County District Attorney's Office), Conyers, Nathan Stuckey, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0492

    Court reverses trial court's denial of a motion to suppress evidence because traffic stop was unreasonably prolonged in a DUI case

  • Baldwin County v. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities for the State of Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-11
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Welch, (Smith Welch Webb & White), McDonough, Brandon Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Jonathan Loegel, (Office of the Attorney General of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1636

    Court affirms dismissal in Baldwin County's breach of contract lawsuit with state behavioral health department because no valid intergovernmental contract existed between the entities

  • Finnegan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler Conklin, (Conklin Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Cliff Head, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, Rachel Ashe, (Cherokee County Solicitor Generals Office), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0439

    Court affirms kidnapping and drug convictions but vacates and remands for resentencing on duplicative family-violence order violations

  • Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Lazarus & Adele, LLP v. Barken et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, Skyler McDonald, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Tampa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Rogers, William D’Antignac, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, John Hadden, (Penn Law, LLC), Atlanta, G Spears, (Spears & Filipovits, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Ware, Pearson Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith), Atlanta, Russell Britt, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Michael Wynter, (City of Atlanta- Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party; Rusi Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A0159

    Court reverses sanctions against law firm, where sanctions had been awarded on account of law firm's failure to timely disclose conflict of interest

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Miller, (Attorney at Law), Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anna Johnson, Samir Patel, Erle Newton, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit - District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0533

    Court affirms conviction in child molestation case and rejects defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; over failure to object to jury's consideration of notes written by defendant

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  • Reeves et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David King, Paul Grote, (Burkhalter Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa McMullen, Marvin Dikeman, (Webb Zschunke Neary & Dikeman, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0286

    Court affirms directed verdict in favor of insurance company in a dispute over a lawsuit limitation period, finding that insured party filed the lawsuit past a one-year limit in the insurance contract

  • Hewett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Adams, (Office of the District Attorney, Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Jackson, Dorothy Hull, (Assistant District Attorney), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0157

    Court affirms child molestation and sexual battery convictions over defendant's challenges regarding sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and other errors

  • Jordan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A0397

    Court affirms entry of nolle prosequi order to charges of Influencing a witness and rejects defendant's speedy trial claim, which had been made on the basis of constitutional rights

  • Anderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Flynn Broady, Linda Dunikoski, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0358

    Court affirms convictions for rape and related charges over defendant's challenges of juror's compromise, ineffective assistance of counsel, and insufficient evidence

  • Farmer v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rahmaan Bowick, (Augusta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Augusta, Jay Kim, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Larry Smith, Jared Williams, (District Attorney’s Office Augusta Judicial Circuit), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1677

    Court reverses denial of motion to suppress evidence in a burglary case, highlighting the limits of police authority in encounters and searches