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  • Bowman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren Beth Shubow, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, 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, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0682

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's objections to certain jury charges and contentions of trial court error

  • Sosebee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jake Allen Shapiro, (Hall County Public Defender’s Office), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lee Darragh, Kelley Martin Robertson, Anna Victoria Fowler, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee; Matthew P. Cavedon, (Northeastern Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Gainesville, Virginia Natasha Perdew Silas, (Federal Defender Program Inc.), Atlanta, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (J. Ryan Brown Law LLC), Newnan, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23A0589

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and homicide by vehicle over defendant's challenges regarding the rule of lenity and cruel and unusual punishment

  • Steele v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0460

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's unsupported challenge to sufficiency of evidence, but vacates assault conviction that should have merged

  • Kinlaw v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Keith Higgins, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0547

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of other trial court errors

  • Prodigies Child Care Management, LLC, d/b/a University Childcare Center v. Cotton

    Publication Date: 2023-11-03
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Glenn Moffett, Matthew Ryan Del Campo, (Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Blaine Alexander Norris, John R Autry, (Blaine A. Norris, PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0914

    Court rules that there is no special circumstances exception to the doctrine of respondeat superior and that a basic analysis applies in all instances

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  • McBrayer et al. v. Scarbrough

    Publication Date: 2023-11-03
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig A. Webster, (Webster Law Group, INC.), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Terry Eugene Williams, Jason Christopher Waymire, (Williams Morris & Waymire), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G1152

    "Use" of a patrol car for purposes of waiver of sovereign immunity is not limited to active use or use of the car as a vehicle

  • Rivera v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lon Powell Kemeness, (Lon P. Kemeness), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0429

    Court reverses a rape conviction due a defective indictment but affirms a felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to admission of other acts evidence

  • Caldwell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Ruth Towne, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Angela Lynn Mattozzi, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0987

    Jury Was Properly Instructed That State Had to Prove All Material Allegations in Indictment

  • In the Matter of Ryan Curtis Cleveland.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-02
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ryan Curtis Cleveland, Boston, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0688

    Disbarment Appropriate Discipline Based on Attorney's History of Abandonment of Clients and Failure to Respond to Notices of Discipline

  • In the Matter of David Carleton Head.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-02
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Carleton Head, Waco, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0635

    State Bar's Notice of Discipline Failed to Describe Several Instances of Prior Discipline Cited as Aggravating Factors