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  • Awad v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. Benjamin Sessions, (The Sessions Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Patrick Higgins, Jr., Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr., (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee; Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Kimberly A. Dymecki, Peachtree Corners, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (Paulding County Public Defender's Office), Dallas, for Amicus Appellant; Omeeka P. Loggins, (Augusta-Richmond County Solicitor General's Office), Augusta, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., Gilbert Alexander Crosby, (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus; Andrew Alan Pinson, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21G0370

    Court determines that evidence of a defendant's refusal to submit a urine sample is inadmissible because admission violates the right against compelled self-incrimination

  • Cedillo v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, Kayci Timmons, (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradford Rigby, (District Attorney's Office of the Cordele Judicial), Cordele, Patrick Warren, (Assistant District Attorney), Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1661

    Trial Court Erred in Failing to Make Credibility and Factual Findings on Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1092

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes and rejects defendant's contentions that the evidence was all circumstantial and insufficient to support a conviction

  • Saxton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Leroy Johnson, (Office of ALJ, PC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0059

    Any Error in Allowing Prosecution Witness to Testify Regarding Direction of Bullet Travel Was Harmless

  • Bernard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn Kleinrock, (Law Office of Lynn M. Kleinrock), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Christopher DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1709

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Failing to Object When Police Investigator Introduced Prior Consistent Statements of Co-Defendant Who Had Already Testified

  • Westmoreland v. Walgreen Co

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Evidence | Premises Liability
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore Lackland, (Lackland & Associates LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold Hilton, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Terrance Sullivan, (Insley & Race, LLC), Atlanta, Pearson Cunningham, Asya Morgan, (Hall Booth Smith), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1753

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of a retail store on plaintiff's claim for premises liability after she was injured by glass from bottles that dropped onto a floor

  • Neely v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara Mattes, (Barbara Mattes Attorney at Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Jared Williams, (District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1216

    Court reverses trial court's denial of motion to suppress evidence seized during a traffic stop because the stop was unreasonably prolonged with no suspicion of a crime

  • Echols v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Jones, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit), Columbus, Veronica Hansis, (Columbus Consolidated Government Office of the District Attorney), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1712

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault and aggravated battery over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence

  • Moody v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Forrest Pearce, (Pearce, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Tristan Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1108

    Court affirms conviction for assault and battery over defendant's challenge to admission of other-act evidence, ineffective assistance, and due process violation

  • Gayton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Jefferson, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Penn, Courtney Moore, (Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0939

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence collected after defendant's seizure by officers was prolonged beyond a reasonable time.