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  • The State v. Roundtree

    Publication Date: 2024-08-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Fitzner, (Middle Judicial Circuit), Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandi Payne, (Middle Circuit Public Defenders Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1322

    Court vacates probated sentence for drug trafficking and remands for resentencing because statutory scheme did not allow for probating, and defendant was sentenced as a recidivist

  • Bass v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Yurachek, (The Law Offices of Mark Allen Yurachek & Associate), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Thomas Williams, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0927

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault, family violence battery, and firearm possession over defendant's claims of insufficient and abuse of discretion

  • Thompson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Luttrell, (Attorney at Law), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit), Fayetteville, Elizabeth Racine, (Douglas County District Attorney), Douglasville, Aimee Sobhani, (DeKalb County Government-Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0876

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault and armed robbery over defendant's objection to admittance of surveillance video and challenge to an omitted jury instruction

  • Wierson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Rubin, (Peters, Rubin & Sheffield), Decatur, Kristen Novay, (Garland, Samuel and Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Thomas Williams, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee; Justin Moore, (Aequitas Legal Services, LLC), Atlanta, Amanda Walker, (Office of the Public Defender, Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A0241

    Court affirms ruling allowing insanity defense and reverses an order allowing evidence of compliance with prescription medication in a vehicular homicide case

  • Dates et al. v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2024-07-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Sexton, (Sexton Law Firm, LLC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alisha Johnson, Alicia Gant, (Rockdale County District Attorney’s Office), Conyers, Nathan Stuckey, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0783

    Court affirms dismissal of injury claim due to insufficient ante litem notice

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  • Bryan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Nestrud, (Coweta Circuit Public Defender's Office), Franklin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lynda Caldwell, (Assistant District Attorney Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton, John Cranford, (Coweta Judicial Circuit), Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0048

    Court affirms conviction for enticing a child for indecent purposes over defendant's challenges to sufficiency and admission of evidence but vacates some probation conditions as overly broad

  • Ferguson et al. v. Spraggins

    Publication Date: 2024-07-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Adams, (Kenneth S. Nugent, P.C.), Macon, Caroline Herrington, Ashley Pitts, (Adams & Jordan PC), Macon, Alex Kaplan, (Brimberry Kaplan & Brimberry, PC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean Gill, (Gower Wooten Darneille, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Franklin Coleman, (Drew Eckl & Farnham), Albany, Barbara Marschalk, (Drew Eckl & Farnham), Atlanta, William Larsen, (Martin Snow, LLP), Macon, Matthew Lawrence, Jeremy Willis, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith, Lawrence & Shenton), Valdosta, for other Party.
    Case Number: A24A0853

    Court affirms summary judgment for defendant in wrongful death- automobile accident case following execution of imited liability release by plaintiffs

  • Milliken v. C. Merrill Construction, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-07-05
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Enoch, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, Edward Tarver, (Enoch Tarver PC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Colson, (Broucek & Colson, LLC), Statesboro, Samuel Broucek, (Attorney at Law), Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0348

    In a construction contract dispute, court affirms denial of motion to dismiss, reverses denial of motion to compel arbitration, vacates discovery orders, and remands with direction

  • Shropshire v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Jefferson, (Attorney At Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ruth Pawlak, Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0838

    Court affirms aggravated child molestation conviction, but vacates and remands two child molestation convictions for resentencing based on unit-of-prosecution analysis

  • Redfearn v. Moore et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-26
    Practice Area: Contracts | Wrongful Death
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, John Smith, (Young Thagard Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, Matthew Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ben Brodhead, Ashley Fournet, Michael Arndt, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, Orlando Ojeda, (Ojeda Legal, LLC), Atlanta, Michael Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellee; David Atkinson, Sarah Daley, (Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A1028

    Court affirms denial of motion to enforce a settlement agreement in a wrongful death action due to defendant's non-compliance with the strict terms of the offer