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  • Barraza v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-01-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Crawford, (Crawford and Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Mauldin, (District Attorney), Athens, Austin Jackson, (Clarke County DA), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1657

    Court affirms child molestation convictions over defendant's challenges to expert testimony and to limits on cross-examination of a detective investigator

  • Martin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-01-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew David O'Brien, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1134

    Court affirms malice murder and aggravated assault convictions over defendants' evidentiary challenges and claims of trial court error.

  • Maner v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Marshall, (Law Office of David D. Marshall), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Cranford, (Coweta Judicial Circuit), Newnan, Meaghan Smith, (Troup County District Attorney's Office), LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1759

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Evidence of Other Acts of Child Molestation, Even One From 50 Years Ago; Lapse of Time, by Itself, Does Not Affect Admissibility

  • In the Interest of J. B., a child.

    Publication Date: 2021-01-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Johnson, (Attorney at Law), Fernandina Beach, Megan Dempsey, (Brunswick Circuit Public Defender's Office), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacquelyn Johnson, Thomas Buscemi, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1642

    Evidence Was Insufficient to Support Delinquency Adjudication; State Failed to Show That Juvenile Stole Vehicle

  • Thomas v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-01-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Perry Waters, (Attorney at Law), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Alex Martin Bernick, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1187

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's evidentiary challenges and contentions of trial court error

  • Golden v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1273

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and other trial court evidentiary rulings

  • Beck v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek M. Wright, (Derek M. Wright, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tasha Monique Mosley, Karen Smith Barbour, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1152

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contentions of juror misconduct and trial court error over jury instructions and denial of certain evidence

  • Trammell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Messinger, (Western Circuit Public Defender's Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carroll Chisholm, Sara Adams, (Athens-Clarke Solicitor General's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1942

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress because the search that discovered a false identification was pursuant to an unlawful arrest

  • State v. Loechinger

    Publication Date: 2020-12-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lenny Krick, (Assistant District Attorney-Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit), Decatur, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Meredith McCarrey, (Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1638

    Court reverses an order that had granted a motion to suppress when evidence of contraband was found during a valid inventory search of an impounded vehicle

  • Thornton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jad Baskin Johnson, David James Dunn, Jr., Victor Philip Aloisio, III, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Megan Sandra Deitz, A.D.A., Christopher Allen Arnt, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, for appellee. Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S20G0613

    Game Warden Was Authorized to Limit Sound Emitted by Car Stereo; Evidence at Trial Was Sufficient to Sustain Convictions for Obstruction