• Terry v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Wilkes, (Tallapoosa Circuit Public Defender), Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold Baker, Oliver Browning, (Office of the District Attorney, Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit), Cedartown, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0107

    Court reverses conviction for obstruction of officer due to insufficient evidence of lawful detention

  • Griffin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jared Roberts, (Attorney at Law), Douglas, David Cason, (Law Office of David S. Cason), Bethlehem, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith McIntyre, Daphne Totten, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Statesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0197

    Court vacates a trial court's judgment of guilt and remands for correct analysis of defendant's pre-trial immunity motion in an aggravated assault case

  • White v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Russell Willingham, (Willingham Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Faith Donnell Worley, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S24A0333

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes relating to the death of a three-year old disabled child

  • Christopher Massey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-09
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. James Rockefeller, (Rockefeller Law Center), Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradford Lee Rigby, Lauren Warbington Fletcher, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S24A0131

    Court vacates trial court order prohibiting a convicted defendant from possessing a firearm and remands case for reconsideration in light of new U.S. Supreme Court precedent

  • The State v. Hanks

    Publication Date: 2024-08-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, Jayna Easton, (Fulton County District Attorney Office), Atlanta, Caitlin Adcock, (Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Shubow, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Brittany Saulsberry, (Office of the Public Defender, Macon Judicial Circuit), Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0256

    Court vacates evidence suppression order in a drug possession case and remands for further proceedings to determine if search warrant was prompted by an unlawful dog sniff test

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    Texas Personal Automobile Insurance Policy 2020

    Authors: Janet K. Colaneri

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • Zayac v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alicia Taylor, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0557

    Court affirms denial of motion to withdraw guilty plea in obscene internet contact case, finding no basis for defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Richardson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean Lowe, (Assistant Public Defender), Ringgold, Jonathan Hamrick, (Cox Byington Twyman LLP), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, Elisabeth Giuliani, (Floyd County District Attorney’s Office), Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0602

    Court affirms conviction in family violence assault case, rejecting defendant's claims of hearsay and best evidence rule violations

  • Beckett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Donnelly, Benjamin Pearlman, (Western Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Athens, Kaitlyn Beck, (Office of the Public Defender, Western Cir.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Wilson, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney), Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0491

    Court reverses conviction for felony fleeing due to insufficient evidence

  • The State v. McElroy

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Williams, Matthew Rollins, (Paulding Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Theo Sereebutra, (H & S Law, LLC), Dallas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0420

    Court reverses and vacates parts of a trial court's evidence suppression order in a matter involving a search warrant for child abuse evidence on a phone and remands for further proceedings

  • Page v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Padgett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, Kayci Timmons, (J. Scott Key, LLC), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Racine, (Douglas County District Attorney), Douglasville, Aimee Sobhani, (DeKalb County Government-Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0427

    Court affirms convictions for rape and other crimes over defendant's claims of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel