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  • Wyatt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0487

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to admission of evidence of his prior attack against his ex-wife

  • The State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Cody Jeremiah Jung, (Fulton County Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0623

    Court reverses a decision transferring a case to juvenile court, holding that superior court retained jurisdiction where defendant was reindicted beyond the 180-day statutory window

  • The State v. Meadows

    Publication Date: 2024-10-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Gammage, Steven Rosenberg, (Fulton County Solicitor General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Scarborough, Atlanta, Kali Wills, (Office of the Public Defender), Stoncrest, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1083

    Court affirms dismissal of weapons charge due to insufficient accusation under Georgia law

  • State v. Martin

    Publication Date: 2024-10-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mike Carlson, Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, John Melvin, Jayna Edwards, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney, Atlanta Judicial Circuit), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mide Olaloye, Newnan, for appellee; John Melvin, (District Attorney), Lawrenceville, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A0801

    Court reverses exclusion of evidence produced by State after a discovery deadline in a burglary case, finding that the State's delay did not reflect bad faith

  • The State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Jackson, Robert Hunnicutt, (Carroll County Solicitor's Office), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preston Haliburton, (Haliburton Law Firm), Atlanta, Jeffery Dickerson, (Attorney at Law), Kennesaw, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1042

    Court reverses trial court's order granting defendant's plea in bar to DUI charges, finding that payment of fines did not raise double jeopardy issues

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  • Simon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Padgett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A1026

    Court affirms convictions in elder exploitation case, and affirms use of digital forensics and Cellhawk software evidence that mapped defendant's location

  • McElrath v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman Maddox Kilgore, Carlos Javier Rodriguez, (Kilgore & Rodgriguez, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, Paul Richard Draper, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Stephanie Adrean Green, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0605

    Court vacates a portion of a prior opinion that had denied a plea in bar based on Constitutional Double Jeopardy and reverses that denial, thus preventing retrial on a malice murder charge

  • In re Charity Muse, LPC, BCC

    Publication Date: 2024-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A0647

    Court affirms denial of motion to quash a subpoena for victim's mental health records in a child molestation case

  • The State v. Phipps

    Publication Date: 2024-09-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A0686

    Court of reverses dismissal of DUI charge due to miscalculation of COVID-19 tolling period, which had extended the statute of limitations for more time than calculated by the trial court

  • The State v. Newsom

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rebecca Lee Jackson, Robert Lowell Hunnicutt, (Carroll County Solicitor’s Office), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry Mac Christian Pilgrim, (The Pilgrim Law Group, LLC), Villa Rica, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0749

    Court reverses dismissal of charges in a DUI traffic violation case, finding that the relevant statute which defendant violated was not unconstitutionally vague