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  • The State v. Thomas et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patsy Austin-Gatson, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, Brandon Delfunt, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: LeAnne Hicks, (The Chancey Law Firm, PC), Braselton, Stacy Levy, (Stacy Levy Law, LLC), Lawrenceville, Daniel Ortiz, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Robert Booker, (Law Office of Robert L. Booker PC), Lawrenceville, G. Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0264

    Court affirms exclusion of a defendant's conviction of prior gang activity against other defendants in joint trials, but not against that defendant himself

  • The State v. Stanford

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani Willis, Paul Howard, Stephany Luttrell, Juliana Sleeper, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Marks, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0879

    Court strikes void sentence and remands for trial court's exercise of discretion to resentence a recidivist burglar or to strike a suspended portion of his original sentence

  • Gibson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara Mattes, (Barbara Mattes Attorney at Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Jared Williams, (District Attorney's Office Augusta Judicial Circuit), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1221

    Court affirms defendant's armed robbery and other convictions but vacates sentences due to merger errors, and reverses defendant's unrelated shoplifting conviction

  • Burrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Suzanne Brookshire, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit), Cartersville, Rosemary Greene, (District Attorney), Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1973

    Court affirms convictions for kidnapping and other crimes over defendant's challenges to jurisdiction and evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance

  • Willis v. Cheeley

    Publication Date: 2022-04-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig Frankel, Adam Gaslowitz, Luke Caselman, (Gaslowitz Frankel LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter Hamberg, (The Hamberg Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1730

    Action Not Justiciable Where Resolution of Dispute Would Have No Legal Effect on Parties' Conduct

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  • Baker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacob Stidham, (Banks, Stubbs, & McFarland), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Adam Keller, William Finch, Jenna Murphy, (Forsyth County Solicitor General), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1238

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion for an out-of-time appeal where failure to file a timely appeal was due to ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Butler v. Butler et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-12
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa Taylor, (Stembridge Taylor LLC), Watkinsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Tiffany Ellenberg, (Attorney at Law), Madison, Katherine Stoff, (State Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1570

    Court vacates denial of unemployment benefits and remands for consideration of whether employee's health justified her leaving her job due to potential COVID exposure

  • Bryant v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jamez Bryant, (Wheeler Correctional Facility), Alamo, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Marlow, (Office of the District Attorney), Greenville, John Cranford, (Coweta Judicial Circuit), Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1377

    Court vacates a portion of a sentencing requirement that imposed vague and overbroad conditions of probation on defendant convicted of child sex offenses

  • Roberts v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine Gibson, (The Gibson Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Crochet, (Kutak Rock LLP), Atlanta, Thomas Isler, (Kutak Rock LLP), Denver, Kimberly Sheridan, Jeremy Stallman, (Gordon Rees Scully Manshukhani, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1598

    Court dismisses appeal of dismissal of breach of contract action and remands for consideration of whether motion for substitution of deceased party should be accepted

  • Beauparlant v. Aiken et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-11
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Colin Barron, (Haug Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kimberly Butler, Kristin Massee, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for appellee; G. White, (Brennan, Harris & Rominger LLP), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1255

    Court reverses dismissal of personal injury lawsuit where trial court erred in concluded that statute of limitations was not tolled by a COVID Emergency Order