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  • Pittmon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce Harvey (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh (District Attorney, NEJC of GA Northeastern Judicial Circuit), Gainesville; Shiv Sachdeva (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney), Gainsville; Laura Lukert (Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0963

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for battery, cruelty to children in the first degree and cruelty to children in the second degree after she burned a child in her care at a daycare center and failed to seek medical attention for him.

  • Dublin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Leigh Ellen Patterson, Emily Griffin Johnson (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0822

    The trial court did not err in permitting State to introduce certain hearsay evidence at trial, because the challenged evidence was admissible under the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule, and consequently, trial counsel was not deficient in failing to object to the admissible of that evidence.

  • Roscoe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia Wright Harrison (Harrison Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Michelle Haase, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0718

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for malice murder and related offenses and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting State's motion in limine to exclude hearsay testimony allegedly showing that someone other than defendant killed the victim.