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  • 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
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    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

  • Shellman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Cook Jones, Brian Walter DeBlasiis, Melanie Nicole Fenley, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1089

    Court affirms convictions for murder and firearm possession over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and improper admission of the murder victim's journal

  • Remler v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura D. Hogue, Susan Dalton Raymond, (Hogue Griffin), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Cook Jones, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta; Timothy Patrick Dean, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1075

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence trial court jury instruction error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

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  • Ramirez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Ruth Towne, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Alane Penn, Sandra Ann Partridge, (Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office), Cumming, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0905

    Court affirms malice murder conviction in a case involving severe elder neglect and rejects defendant's contention of insufficient evidence of malice

  • Lovell v. Raffensperger et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristen Lovell, Evans, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas L. Cathey, Fort Gordon, Bryan Keith Webb, Russell David Willard, Elizabeth Wilson Vaughan, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William James Keogh, III, Jordan Bell, (Hull Barrett, P.C.), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0887

    Court affirms dismissal of actions against State and county election officials for non-compliance with sovereign immunity waiver requirements under the Georgia Constitution

  • Collington v. Clayton County, et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John David Hadden, Darren Wade Penn, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Benjamin Frederick Windham, (Ben F. Windham, P.C.), Locust Grove, Robert Walker Garrett, (Morgan & Morgan Atlanta, PLLC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack R. Hancock, Arash Ali Sabzevari, Wes C. Jackson, Jacob Edward Daly, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Charles Madden Cork, III, (LAW OFFICES OF CHARLES M. Cork, III), Decatur, for Amicus Appellant; Kellye C. Moore, (Walker Hulbert Gray & Moore, LLP), Perry, for Amicus Appellee; Daniel C. Prout, Jr., (Waldon Adelman Castilla McNamara & Prout), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S22G1146

    Court verifies that OCGA § 36-11-1 applies to official-capacity claims against county sheriffs, and rules that presenting the claim to a county governing authority satisfies the presentment requirement

  • The State v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2024-02-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Reuven Melnick, (Jonathan R. Melnick PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0842

    Court reverses trial court's suppression of statement taken while defendant was hospitalized and medicated, affirming the need for coercive police conduct for involuntariness

  • In the Matter of Steven Ryan Webster.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig A. Webster, (Webster Law Group, Inc.), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24Y0019

    Court accepts attorney's voluntary petition to surrender his license in a case involving financial mismanagement and trust account violations in relation with real estate services