• Stanley v. Patterson et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-07
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig T. Jones, (Craig T. Jones, PC), Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacquita Laverne Parks, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, William James Atkins, (Edmond, Lindsay & Atkins, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S21G0405

    Quasi-Judicial Immunity Did Not Protect Court Administrator and Managers From Suit For Error That Led to Plaintiff's Arrest and Incarceration

  • In the Matter of Andrew Matteson

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Charles Matteson, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22Y1093

    Attorney Failed to Assure Court He Would Not Commit Similar Rules Violations After Completion of Proposed Suspension

  • Garcia-Jarquin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Kay Jefferson, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cliff Head, Shannon Glover Wallace, (Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office), Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0727

    Conviction For Aggravated Assault Did Not Require Proof That Defendant Actually Pointed Gun at Victim

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (Davis Hewitt Law Firm), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Buffy Dionne Thomas, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0771

    Custodial Statements to Police Were Not Induced by Fear of Injury or Hope of Benefit Reprimand Appropriate Sanction

  • Peacock v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, Jason Michael McLendon, (McLendon Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, James Linder Prine, Michelle Thomas Harrison, Bradfield M. Shealy, (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0578

    Warrant For Search of Home Authorized Search of Vehicle Parked in Curtilage

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  • Coe et al. v. Proskauer Rose, LLP

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice | Tax
    Industry: Accounting | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Jeven Robinson Sloan, (Loewinsohn Deary Simon Ray LLP), Dallas, Harry W. MacDougald, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & Deloach, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Mark G. Trigg, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Shari Lynn Klevens, (Dentons US LLP), Washington, David M. Lederkramer, (Proskauer Rose), New York Lisa S. Blatt, (Williams & Connolly LLP), Washington, for appellee; Johannes S. Kingma, Jeffrey Charles Hoffmeyer, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S21G1250

    Material Factual Dispute Existed as to When Clients Learned Law Firm Was Not Independent of Client's Accounting Firm

  • Reed v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Paul Sharp, (Sharp Georgia Law Firm), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Aslean Zachary Eaglin, Juliana Sleeper, Karen S. Bemis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0530

    Defendant Failed to Show Prejudice Resulting From His Absence From Numerous Bench Conferences During Tria

  • Wheeler v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Marshall Hames, (The Hames Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A1236

    Any Error in Failing to Suppress Evidence Was Harmless Where Defendant Admitted to Shootings

  • Adkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathon Justin Majeske, (The Issa Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, Samuel Richard d’Entremont, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0796

    Circumstantial Evidence Supported Jury's Conclusion Victim Did Not Die From Suicide or Attack by Some Unknown Assailant

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Terrinee Lynette Gundy.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-16
    Practice Area: Court Administration
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring. Courtney Mays Veal, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Gabriel Banks, (Banks Weaver LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Charles Michael Johnson, (Superior Court, Oconee Judicial Circuit), Eastman, Jamala Sumaiya McFadden, (The Employment Law Solution: McFadden Davis, LLC), Atlanta, for Other Party.

    Case Number: S19Z1369

    Municipal Court Judge's Habitual Tardiness and Excessive Absenteeism Warranted Public Reprimand and 90-Day Suspension