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  • State v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2024-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Gammage, Steven Rosenberg, (Fulton County Solicitor General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Iqukema Jones, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0558

    Court reverses dismissal of traffic offenses, where dismissal was based on the statute of limitations, due to miscalculation of COVID-19 tolling period

  • Ward v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Kenemer, Walter Eddy, (Whitfield County District Attorney’s Office), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0174

    Court affirms conviction for family violence battery, rejecting defendant's multiple challenges to evidence and jury instructions

  • Hall v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Fitzpatrick, (Attorney at Law), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Mario Kladis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0568

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault and related offenses, rejecting challenges to sufficiency of evidence sufficiency and admission of text messages as hearsay

  • Cabrera-Zamarripa v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0523

    Court affirms convictions for armed robbery and related offenses, rejecting defendant's challenges to stipulations and jury instructions

  • Shriver v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Warnock, (Mitchell Warnock, LLC), Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louie Fraser, Grady Cullens, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0068

    Court affirms denial of motion to dismiss for alleged speedy trial violation, finding that the four-factor Barker-Doggett balancing test did not justify dismissal of an indictment

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  • The State v. Youn

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisamarie Bristol, Eric Azcoitia, (Gwinnett County Solicitor General), Lawrenceville, Leah Hightower, (Office of the Dekalb County Solicitor General), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Sessions, (The Sessions Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Fleischman, (Sessions & Fleischman), Sandy Springs, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0705

    Court reverses suppression of DUI breath sample and allows admission of results of a third test, because second test had calibration issues and did not meet statutory requirements for a test

  • Chaney v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Walker, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Adams, (Office of the District Attorney, Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Jackson, Leslie Tilson, Jessica Haygood, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0438

    Court affirms denial of motion to dismiss on speedy trial grounds given the COVID-19 tolling that extended all speedy trial periods

  • Rutledge v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: August Siemon, (Attorney at Law.), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anna Johnson, Samir Patel, Erle Newton, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit - District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0272

    Court affirms denial of defendant's motion for immunity to prosecution based on defense-of-dwelling arguments, and affirms his simple battery conviction

  • Anderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Paul Sharp, (Paulding County Public Defender’s Office), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anthony Brett Williams, Matthew Wayne Rollins, (Paulding County District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0405

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's argument that the trial court should have issued an instruction on voluntary manslaughter and claim of ineffective assistance

  • Feder v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0528

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to inconsistent jury verdicts and claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel