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  • Garrison v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel Sliger, (McDonald & Cody, LLC), Cornelia, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Langley, Daniel Garrett, (Enotah District Attorney’s Office), Blairsville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1032

    Time For Filing Amended Accusation Was Tolled by COVID-19 Judicial Emergency Orders

  • Da Silva v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler Conklin, (Conklin Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Fayette County District Attorney’s Office), Fayetteville, Marie Broder, (Spalding County District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0922

    Defendant's Offhand Remark During Trial Testimony Placed His Character at Issue, Opening Door to Impeachment Evidence

  • In the Interest of R. J. A., a child.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric C. Crawford, (Crawford & Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cora Mae Fisher, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Brandon M. Delfunt, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23C0133

    Court denies a juvenile defendant's petition for certiorari over whether a superior court retained jurisdiction over a criminal case or if the case should be in juvenile court

  • Brown v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley Schoolcraft, (Circuit Public Defender’s Office), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Fayette County District Attorney’s Office), Fayetteville, Marie Broder, (Spalding County District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0704

    Business Entity Named as Payor on Stolen Check Was "Person" Within Meaning of Identity Fraud Statute

  • Wood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, III, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0637

    Evidence Did Not Support Defendant's Claim He Shot Victim in Self-Defense

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  • Middleton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Christopher Tyrone, Jonathan P. Lockwood, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin E. Gephardt, Charles Keith Higgins, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, for appellee; Jill Anderson Travis, Mazie Lynn Guertin, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (J. Ryan Brown Law LLC), Newnan, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus; Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, Wayne R. Beckermann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22G1050

    Scope of Police Officer's Authority to Stop Vehicle Outside of City Boundaries Required Further Clarification From Trial Court

  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Richard King, (SK Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth A. Baker, Constance Monique Harris, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0436

    Crime-Scene Video Did Not Support Defendant's Self-Defense Claim

  • Shields v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy Copeland, (Rouse + Copeland LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Durden, Hugh Ridgway, Billy Nelson, (Office of the District Attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit), Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0037

    Court affirms convictions for distribution of child pornography over defendant's challenges to admission of inculpatory statements and jury instructions

  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Malone, (Appellate Division, Georgia Pubic Defender Council), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stacey Jackson, Frederick Lewis, Veronica Hansis, (Chattahoochee Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0367

    Court affirms convictions for child molestation over defendant's multiple contentions of error, but vacates defendant's sentence and remands for resentencing

  • Caldwell v. Edenfield

    Publication Date: 2023-08-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clint Christopher Malcolm, Tayo Popoola, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Sabrina Dawn Graham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Francis Bogan, III, Bennett Richardson, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, Vanessa J. Carroll, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, Anna Marie Arceneaux, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0260

    Court reverses a habeus court's order that had reversed a death penalty sentence and remands for findings of fact and conclusions of law on a defendant's mental capacity