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  • Powell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Kraus, (Office of the Public Defender), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tasha Monique Mosley, Karen Smith Barbour, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0852

    Court affirms denial of defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of malice murder

  • Ringold v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin J. Wilson, Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Daniel Sanmiguel, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0580

    Trial court is ordered to dismiss a murder defendant's pro se motion to withdraw a guilty plea where defendant was still represented by counsel when he filed that motion

  • The State v. Wilkerson

    Publication Date: 2020-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Bishop, Thomas Earnest, Ronald McNease, (District Attorney's Office Pataula Judicial Circuit), Cuthbert, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald Parker, (Assistant Public Defender), Bainbridge, Christina Cribbs, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1253

    In granting a defendant's motion for a new trial, the trial court did not improperly conflate standards for legal sufficiency of evidence with standards for general grounds

  • Scales v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Walker, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia Slater, Ray Daniel, (District Attorney of the Chattahoochee Judicial District), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0440

    Court affirms defendant's convictions for aggravated assault and other crimes over his contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • The State v. Rhodes

    Publication Date: 2020-08-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joyette Holmes, Marietta, John Edwards, Amelia Pray, John Melvin, (District Attorney's Office, Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ashleigh Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, PC), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0246

    Court affirms order granting a defendant a new trial on charges of aggravated child molestation

  • Nelson v. Wilkey

    Publication Date: 2020-08-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Billy J. Dixon, Tracy Graham Lawson, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, Elizabeth A. Baker, (Fayette County District Attorney's Office), Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Maryann Faith Blend, (Maryann F. Blend, Esq., P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0013

    Court affirms grant of habeus relief where defendant received ineffective assistance of plea counsel on his right to withdraw a guilty plea

  • Schaeffer v. Kearney

    Publication Date: 2020-07-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Lee, (Attorney for the City of Sandy Springs), Sandy Springs, Sean Ryan, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Crail Lewis, (Law Office of Crail A. Lewis, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0264

    Court reverses an order granting a writ of mandamus to bound a municipal matter over to superior court because petitioner's correct remedy was a writ of certiorari

  • Alexander v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas White, (Attorney at Law), Nicholas White, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel Altman, Kelly Weathers, (Middle Judicial Circuit - District Attorney), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0293

    Court affirms a convictions for felony fleeing over defendant's objections to sufficiency of evidence and trial court error in failing to act as a thirteenth juror

  • Burley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas G. Burley, (Phillips State Prison), Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Arles Lisenby, Jr., (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hamilton, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0356

    Court vacates trial court's denial of a motion for an out-of-time appeal and remands for a hearing on murder defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Oliver v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Troy Edward Golden, (Dougherty Circuit Public Defender's Office), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory W. Edwards, Harold Ronald Moroz, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0489

    Court rejects felony murder defendant's appeal to his negotiated guilty plea because the facts in the record were contrary to his arguments