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  • Sosa v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cristobal Lara Sosa, Pelham, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, John Fowler, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, Tasha Mosley, Tracy Lawson, (District Attorney), Jonesboro, Charles Brooks, (Office of the Solicitor General of Clayton County), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1149

    Court vacates order denying defendant's motion for an out-of-time appeal because trial court did not conduct an inquiry into claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Green v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-11-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A19A1122

    Court grants defendant's new trial motion after trial court erred by admitting prior acts evidence

  • Chitwood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Sheppard, (Attorney at Law), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Arnt, Herbert Franklin, (Assistant District Attorney), Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1247

    Evidence Was Insufficient to Sustain Two of Three Child Molestation Convictions, But Sufficient to Support Convictions for Aggravated Sexual Battery

  • Mitchum v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore, Mathew Gilbo, Meagan Hurley, Ezra Addison Gantt, (Mercer Law School), Macon, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, Andrea Lynn Clark, Gabrielle Lynn Biggs, (Mercer Habeas Project), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Billy Joe Nelson, Jr., John Thomas Durden, Jr., (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hinesville, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0554

    Petition for habeus corpus and not an extraordinary motion for a new trial is the appropriate remedy for deprivation of a defendant's Constitutional rights

  • Pinkston v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joyette Holmes, Amelia Pray, D. Reynolds, John Melvin, (District Attorney's Office, Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1390

    Statements Made to Officers by Minister, Who Was Convicted of Molestation, Were Not Involuntary

  • Powell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia Harrison, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Deborah Wellborn, (Dekalb County District Attorney), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1091

    Appellant Failed to Show That There Was Insufficient Evidence to Support Armed Robbery Conviction

  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ivars Lacis, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Coker, Brittany Fallin, (Upson County District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1291

    Court vacates armed robbery conviction and remands case because trial court improperly applied the standard for a new trial.

  • The State v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Smith, Henry Syms, (District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Stewart (Augusta Public Defender's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1545

    Court Did Not Err in Relying on Federal Case Law to Grant Motion for a New Trial Based on Dismissal of Juror After Deliberations Had Begun

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Michael Reba, (The Law Office of Stephen M. Reba, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Marc A. Mallon, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0954

    Defendant Could Not Revive Failed Claim of Trial Counsel's Ineffective Assistance On Appeal

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Devlin Cooper, Ashley A. Cooper, (Cooper, Barton & Cooper, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Cara Raye Fiore, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, Scott Orion Teague, (Douglas County District Attorney Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0643

    Court affirms felony murder conviction that was entered pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement.