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  • Danmond Slack v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Cribbs, Veronica O'Grady, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Howard, Marc Mallon, (Senior Assistant District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2091

    Court affirms child molestation convictions but reverses child cruelty conviction due to ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Rice v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lyndsey Hix, (Augusta Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Natalie Paine, (District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1645

    Court reverses order denying defendant's motion to withdraw a guilty plea, and remands case for further proceedings

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Quincy Jones, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, John Fowler, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, Tasha Mosley, Charles Brooks, (Harold Banke Justice Center), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0309

    Court vacates trial court's denial of defendant's motion for out-of-time appeal and remands for an evidentiary hearing on effectiveness of counsel

  • Bamberg v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Andrew J. Ekonomou, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, Jan Kennedy, Thomas Edwars Buscemi, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1052

    Court affirms convictions of mother and son for murder of the son's ex-wife over their challenges to evidence and alleged trial court error

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-26
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Locke, (Locke Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacquelyn Johnson, Thomas Buscemi, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1844

    Extraordinary Motion For New Trial Not Proper Method For Addressing Constitutional Claims

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  • Brock v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dustin Land, (Bryan and Land, LLC), Ashburn, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christian Brown, Bradford Rigby, (District Attorney's Office of the Cordele Judicial), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2037

    Prosecution Had Duty to Ensure Trial Transcript Was Created and Preserved Following Felony Conviction of Non-Indigent Defendant

  • Womack v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Bickerstaff, Julia Slater, (DA's Office- Chattahoochee Jud. Cir.), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1720

    No trial court error in admission of hearsay testimony when co-conspirator responsible for that testimony is later acquitted.

  • Hamlette v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Barnhill, Alexander Markowich, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1839

    Court affirms voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault convictions against two brothers, bet remands case for resentencing due to merging error

  • The State v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shannon Glover Wallace, Zachary Holman Smith, Cliff Head, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bernard Stephen Brody, (Brody Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellee. Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S19G0005

    Court reverses appellate court's dismissal of aggravated sexual battery conviction notwithstanding trial court's erroneous jury instruction.

  • Spikes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jad Johnson, (Office of the Public Defender), Lafayette, appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Arnt, Herbert Franklin, (Assistant District Attorney), LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1706

    Court reverses rape and child molestation convictions because trial court improperly ordered total closure of trial during the victim's testimony