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  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Morgan, (Attorney at Law), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, Elisabeth Giuliani, (Floyd County District Attorney’s Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0849

    Court affirms conditions of probation for driver convicted of homicide by vehicle under First Offender Act

  • Leaphart v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Bullard, Audra Murphey, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, Anna Fowler, (District Attorney, NEJC of Ga Northeastern Judicial Circuit), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1123

    Court affirms conviction for aggravated child molestation over defendant's contention that he was denied a Faretta hearing for self-representation and challenge to admission of evidence

  • The State v. Roundtree

    Publication Date: 2024-08-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Fitzner, (Middle Judicial Circuit), Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandi Payne, (Middle Circuit Public Defenders Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1322

    Court vacates probated sentence for drug trafficking and remands for resentencing because statutory scheme did not allow for probating, and defendant was sentenced as a recidivist

  • Bass v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Yurachek, (The Law Offices of Mark Allen Yurachek & Associate), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Thomas Williams, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0927

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault, family violence battery, and firearm possession over defendant's claims of insufficient and abuse of discretion

  • Brown v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Taylor, (Public Defender’s Office of Columbia Judicial Circuit), Evans, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bobby Christine, Kevin Majeska, (Columbia Judicial Circuit District Attorney), Evans, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1029

    Court reverses convictions for child molestation and related charges due to trial court's improper removal and replacement of a hold-out juror

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  • Thompson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Luttrell, (Attorney at Law), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit), Fayetteville, Elizabeth Racine, (Douglas County District Attorney), Douglasville, Aimee Sobhani, (DeKalb County Government-Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0876

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault and armed robbery over defendant's objection to admittance of surveillance video and challenge to an omitted jury instruction

  • Grant v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Sarah Jane Thomas, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Meredith Leigh Layman, Richard Scott Harrison, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Lyle Burnham, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0843

    Court affirms felony murder conviction, finding that evidence of defendant's participation in robbery and murder was sufficient to support the verdict

  • Tavarez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Horne Petrey, (Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0532

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims that his trial was compromised because he was shackled

  • The State v. Stillman

    Publication Date: 2024-08-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Cliff Head, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bernard Brody, (Brody Law Firm), Atlanta, Donald Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0594

    Court reverses application of rule of lenity that trial court cited to vacate trafficking charges, and remands for resentencing of defendant on trafficking and pandering charges

  • The State v. Caldwell

    Publication Date: 2024-08-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Cliff Head, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, Kelly Nugent-Chavis, (Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip Price, Jenny Rose, (Price Law Group), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0037

    Court affirms suppression of evidence in traffic stop case, citing unlawful prolongation of detention