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  • Tatum v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Jay McArthur, (McArthur & McArthur, P.A.), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Parks White, (Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hartwell, Michael Martin Coveney, (Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Danielsville, Jeffrey Lee, (Office of the Elbert County District Attorney), Elberton for appellee; Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Virginia Natasha Perdew Silas, (Federal Defender Program Inc.), Decatur, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Smyrna, Mazie Lynn Guertin, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Cory H. Isaacson, (Aclu Foundation of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G0955

    Court vacates denial of motion to suppress evidence and remands for determination of whether the independent source doctrine applies in a case involving a warrantless search

  • Ebersole v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole Baker, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Acworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, (District Attorney, NEJC of GA Northeastern Judicial Circuit), Gainesville, Patrick Shuler, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0518

    Court affirms convictions in an attempted rape and aggravated assault case over defendant's challenges to admission of evidence and allegations of cumulative error

  • Coverstone v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace Rogers, (Burns Law Group PC), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Marietta, Cliff Head, Damion Overstreet, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1619

    Court affirms denial of suppression of evidence seized during a warrantless vehicle search, finding probable cause based on the totality of circumstances amid legal CBD possession

  • McKinney v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Katz, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Alex Martin Bernick, Michael Scott Carlson, Bruce Patilloch Dutcher, Jayna Edwards, Adam Robert Abbate, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Christopher David Sperry, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee; Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, John Stuart Melvin, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Jeffrey T. Wennar, Tucson, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0448

    Court affirms that admissibility of other acts evidence in cases involving the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act are subject to the Rule 403 balancing test rather than a nexus to gang activity

  • The State v. Yearwood-Cabbel

    Publication Date: 2024-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A23A1728

    Court affirms motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant where neither the challenger nor the evidence was named in the warrant itself

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  • Tracie Underwood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristin C. Moore Waller, (Epps, Holloway, Deloach & Hoipkemier), Watkinsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Najjar, James Bradley Smith, (Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0714

    Court vacates its writ of certiorari on defendant's appeal to convictions for drug trafficking and other crimes and rejects defendant's challenge to denial of her motion to suppress evidence

  • Adams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Allen Hoort, Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1207

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of the evidence, and contentions of evidentiary error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Weems v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Allen Hoort, Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Mario Kladis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1179

    Court affirms malice murder convictions over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of the evidence, and contentions of error in admitting and commenting on evidence

  • The State v. Randall

    Publication Date: 2024-02-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Eric Michael Whitmore, (office of the solicitor General), Athens, William Washington Fleenor, Ethan Merritt Makin, (Athens-Clarke County Solicitor General’s Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffery Alan Rothman, Anna Green Bolden, (Daniels & Rothman PC), Athens, for appellee; Greg Allen Willis, Jessica Jones, Casey A. Cleaver, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (J. Ryan Brown Law LLC), Newnan, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1118

    Court vacates order suppressing evidence of a defendant's refusal to submit to a blood test and remands for consideration of issue under Rule 403, rather than analyzing the constitutional issue

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Cook Jones, Brian Walter DeBlasiis, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1159

    Court affirms convictions and sentence for malice murder and other offenses over defendant's contentions of evidentiary errors and ineffective assistance of counsel