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  • Gardei v. Conway et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-18
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Monroe Mitchell, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Tuwanda Rush Williams, Murray Joseph Weed, (Gwinnett County Department of Law), Lawrenceville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Elizabeth McRary Crowder, Tina Michelle Piper, Christopher M. Carr, Andrew Alan Pinson Drew F. Waldbeser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0430

    Causes of Action in Petition Seeking Determination as to Sex Offender's Future Registration Requirements Had Not Yet Accrued

  • Brennan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-18
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Robert Roch, II, (The Roch Firm, P.C.), Canton, Kyle E. Koester, (Law Offices of Kyle E. Koester, LLC), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Thomas Durden, Jr., (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hinesville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta.
    Case Number: S21A1183

    Disclosure of Tentative Plea Agreement at USCR 33.5 Pretrial Conference Was Not Critical Stage Requiring Defendant's Presence

  • Terrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sydney Rene Strickland, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0942

    No Showing That Appeal Delay Warranted New Trial

  • Bowen v. Noel

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, John B. Merchant, III, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1133

    Court reverses grant of relief by habeus court, concluding that defendant had not carried his burden of showing ineffective assistance of appellate counsel

  • Jenkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1127

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to sufficiency and admission of evidence and assertions of ineffective assistance of counsel

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  • Awad v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. Benjamin Sessions, (The Sessions Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Patrick Higgins, Jr., Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr., (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee; Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Kimberly A. Dymecki, Peachtree Corners, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (Paulding County Public Defender's Office), Dallas, for Amicus Appellant; Omeeka P. Loggins, (Augusta-Richmond County Solicitor General's Office), Augusta, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., Gilbert Alexander Crosby, (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus; Andrew Alan Pinson, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21G0370

    Court determines that evidence of a defendant's refusal to submit a urine sample is inadmissible because admission violates the right against compelled self-incrimination

  • Payne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Shepherd West, (David West & Associates), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anthony Brett Williams, Matthew Wayne Rollins, (Paulding County District Attorney's Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1096

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to admission of evidence and assertions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Ward v. Carlton

    Publication Date: 2022-02-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis Alan Carlton, (Cobb County Adult Detention Center), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1088

    Habeus court erred when it concluded that trial court erred in revoking defendant's probation while he was still incarcerated and before probationary period began

  • Boone v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Odeirrek D. Boone, (Wheeler Correctional Facility), Alamo, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Richard Benjamin Caplan, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1065

    Court affirms denial of a motion for an out-of-time appeal to withdraw a guilty plea to malice murder because that remedy was not available to defendant at this juncture

  • In the Matter of Sawand Palmer.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy W. Copeland, Tyrone Nathaniel Haugabrook, (Copeland, Haugabrook & Walker), Valdosta, for appellee; Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, LaRae Dixon Moore, (Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford PC), Columbus, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S22Y0394

    Suspension From Practice Appropriate Following Attorney's Petition for Voluntary Discipline