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  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Kraus, (Attorney at Law), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, John Fowler, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, Tasha Mosley, Charles Brooks, (Harold R. Banke Justice Center), Jonesboro, Tracy Lawson, (District Attorney Banke Justice Center - 4th Floor), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2021

    No Error in Admission of Photo Array Identification Evidence Where Victims Had Independent Bases for Identifying Defendant

  • Mobley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, Holly Veal, (The Veal Law Firm, P.C.), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Darius Pattillo, Sharon Hopkins, Atha Pryor, (Henry County District Attorney's Office), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0500

    Court reverses vehicular homicide convictions due to violations of defendant's Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures

  • Wilson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bentley Adams, (Attorney at Law), Lihue, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Howard, Marc Mallon, (Senior Assistant District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2014

    No Showing That Prosecution Improperly Sought to Goad Defendant to Seek Mistrial

  • Simpson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryann Blend, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nigel Lush, Daniel Porter, (District Attorney Gwinnett Justice & Administrative Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1670

    Court affirmed defendant's criminal gang activity conviction and vacates criminal property damage conviction

  • Jenkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Maestas, (The Holly Hance Maestas Law Firm), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Mulholland, Moruf Oseni, (Office of the District Attorney, South Georgia Circuit), Bainbridge, for appellee. Gilbert Murrah, (The Law Office of Gilbert J. Murrah, P.C.), Bainbridge, Keith Pflepsen, (Woodall & Pflepsen PC), Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: A19A2183

    Attempted Felony Murder No Crime in Georgia

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  • White v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Brown Dillon, (Brown & Gill, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, Elizabeth Morgan Kendrick, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1257

    Evidence That Stabbing Victim Was Involved in Altercation With Third Party Shortly Before He Was Killed Was Properly Excluded From Trial

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Shepherd West, (David West & Associates), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Alonza Whitaker, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1147

    Gruesome Autopsy Photo Had Significant Probative Value as to Direction of Gunshot Wound

  • 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

  • Clark v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manubir Singh Arora, (Arora & Lascala, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ryan Reese Leonard, Sean Alexander Garrett, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1344

    Malice Murder Defendant's Claim of Defense of Habitation Not Supported by Evidence

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean Justin Lowe, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Rome, David James Dunn, Jr., (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., Melissa Ann Pittman, Christopher Allen Arnt, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1248

    Court rejects defendant's constitutional challenges to sentence for sexual battery