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  • Shine v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence Daniel, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Racine, Aimee Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1580

    Court affirms convictions for theft by taking, felony fleeing, and theft by receiving over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence

  • Baker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Brisendine, Zebulon, Patrick Baker, (Telfair State Prison), Helena, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Poston, (District Attorney), Dalton, Victoria Parker, (Attorney at Law), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1442

    Court vacates sentence for armed robbery and remands for both resentencing and consideration of defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea

  • Viente v. Maiden

    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa West, (The West Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Desautel, (Meriwether & Tharp, LLC), Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1774

    Family Law Court's Attorney Fees Award Lacked Necessary Factual Findings and Conclusions of Law

  • City of Albany v. Dougherty County, Georgia

    Publication Date: 2022-01-28
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Lewis, Jessica Haygood, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, for appellee; Jon-Selby Hawk, (Morgan & Morgan Atlanta PLLC), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1280

    Court affirms denial of City's motion for summary judgment per the law of the case doctrine because the City's issue was addressed in a prior appeal

  • In the Interest of C. B., a child (mother).

    Publication Date: 2022-01-28
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Tucker, (The Law Offices of J Nichole Tucker, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Shalen Nelson, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Emily Harris, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jerry Thacker, (Attorney at Law), Conyers, Raymond Gordon, (Raymond F. Gordon PC), Atlanta, for appellee; Dana Leader, (DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1195

    Court reverses juvenile court order and concludes a child to be not dependent because DFCS did not present clear and convincing evidence of present dependency

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  • In the Interest of Baby Girl N., a child

    Publication Date: 2022-01-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Celeste Brewer, (Bell & Washington LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Shalen Nelson, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Emily Harris, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sheryle Dickens, Covington, for appellee; DeVona Roseberry, (Roseberry Law, LLC), Conyers, Karen Greene, (Attorney at Law), Snellville, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1751

    Juvenile Court Properly Allowed Foster Parents to Intervene in Dependency Action

  • Grimes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Mills, (William B. Mill, P.C.), Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Arnt, (District Attorney), Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1440

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated sodomy and other crimes on procedural grounds that defendant waived, abandoned, or failed to preserve enumerations of error

  • Hearn v. Guarin et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-26
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Bryant, Wayne Tartline, Eric Connelly, (Bovis Kyle Burch & Medlin, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Craig, (Attorney at Law), Vidalia, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1620

    Court vacate denial of motion to dismiss, finding that trial court relied on erroneous facts in concluding that plaintiffs had accomplished service of process

  • Stokes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Tristan Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1658

    Victim of Armed Robbery Need Not Be Conscious of Theft at Time of Taking

  • Giles v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Thomas, (The Law Offices of Brandon A. Thomas, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ian Heap, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Charles Higgins, (District Attorney's Office for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, Benjamin Gephardt, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Kingsland, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1352

    Court reverses denial of first offender's motion to terminate his first-offender status because he was never adjudicated guilty and he completed his probation.