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  • Merritt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0288

    Trial Court's Abused of Discretion in Allowing Witness Testimony on Prior Allegation of Sexual Battery Did Not Contribute to Jury's Verdict

  • Star Residential, LLC et al. v. Hernandez

    Publication Date: 2021-07-19
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie C. Ellis, Jr., Warner S. Fox, Elliott Crawford Ream, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Robert B. Gilbreath, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Dallas, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Sidney Leighton Moore, (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Decatur, for Appellee; Warren Calvin Smith, (W. Calvin Smith, II, P.C.), Atlanta, for other party; Jacob Edward Daly, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey S. Ward, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Brunswick, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, James Miachaell Williams, (Georgia Apartment Association), Atlanta, Barry Goheen, (Fisherbroyles, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20G1214

    Court reverses denial of a property manager's motion to dismiss an injured party's cause of action for nuisance under the Street Gang Terrorism Act

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josh David Moore, Thea Adele Delage, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Atlanta, Brian Stull, (American Civil Liberties Union), Durham, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Sabrina Dawn Graham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee. Andrew John King, (Fisherbroyles, LLP), Atlanta, Laurence Shtasel, Taylor Lake, Heidi Crikelair, (Blank Rome LLP), Philidelphia, for Amicus Appellant. Vanessa J. Carroll, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21P0078

    Requiring Death Penalty Defendant to Prove Intellectual Disability Beyond Reasonable Doubt Not Unconstitutional

  • Maxwell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0302

    Trial Court Should Have Dismissed Street Gang Activity Counts as They Were Explicitly Premised in Indictment on Counts That Were Dismissed

  • Griffin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Christopher Locke, (Locke Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0448

    No Jury Misconduct Where Jurors Reviewed Texts on Properly Admitted Cell Phone Sent Out With Jury Without Objection

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  • Dukes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Lynn Tyo, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Atlanta for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0399

    Sentences on Two Separate Firearm-Possession Counts Should Have Merged

  • Kessler v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Rupp Cribbs, (Georgia Innocence Project), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Vanessa Therese Sassano, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Sadhana Pandey Dailey, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0066

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's contentions of trial court error and cumulative effect of errors.

  • Johnson v. Avis Rent A Car System, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-26
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Brian Terry, Christopher Todd Giovinazzo, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Amanda Kay Seals, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Michael Lawson Neff, Darryl Dwayne Adams, Susan Mary Cremer, Timothy Shane Peagler, (The Law Offices of Michael Lawson Neff, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brantley Cole Rowlen, Jason Phillip Wright, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, George Lee Welborn, (Downey, Cleveland, Parker & Williams), Marietta, William T. Casey, Jr., (Swift Currie Mcghee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. John David Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Nathan Alexander Gaffney, (Fried Rogers Goldberg), Lyle Griffin Warshauer, (Warshauer Law Group, P.C.), Atlanta, Brian DeVoe Rogers, (Rogers & Fite, LLC), Atlanta, Darren Wade Penn, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant. Mark Behrens, Caroline Marie Gieser, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP), Atlanta, Philip Wade Savrin, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Alexia B. Ruffner Roney, (Nall & Miller, LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey S. Ward, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Brunswick, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Jennifer Burch Dempsey, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G0695

    Tortfeasor's intervening criminal conduct caused plaintiff's injuries, and defendant rental car company was not liable for plaintiffs' injuries

  • Duke v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-04-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, John B. Merchant, III, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, John Sikes Gibbs, III, (Troutman Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, Jennifer Dawn Hart, (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cordele, for appellee. Patrick Mulvaney, (Southern Center For Human Rights), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, Shannon Glover Wallace, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, Kelly Jean Long Pridgen, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., G. Joseph Scheuer, (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee. Omotayo Bayonle Alli, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S20A1522

    Indigent Criminal Defendant Private Pro Bono Counsel Was Entitled to State-Funded Experts and Investigators

  • Volkova v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-03-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    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, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, (Gwinnett Circuit District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, Daniel Sanmiguel, (Hall County Solicitor's Office), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0006

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Instruction to Jury on Statement Made to Police by Murder Appellant Who Was Not in Custody at the Time