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  • Summerville v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Lee Bailey, (Office of the Public Defender, Toombs Judicial Circuit), Thompson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Patrick Doupé, Anna Shealy Kenerly, (Toombs County District Attorney’s Office), Thompson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0692

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel and contentions of trial court error in limiting cross examination of a forensic witness

  • Tedder v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas McKee West, (Thomas M. West, Attorney at Law), Bethlehem, Holly Lynn Geerdes, (Geerdes & Associates), Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elaine L. Thompson, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0588

    Court affirms conviction for malice murder and related crimes over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence, improper comments about evidence, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Najarro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Leroy Whitman, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton , Clint Christopher Malcolm Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Wanda Lynn Vance, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0616

    Court affirms murder and attempted robbery convictions over defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Depriest v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teri Lynn Doepke, (The Doepke Law Firm, LLC), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Faith Donnell Worley, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, Amber Rae Bennett, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1152

    Court affirms felony murder conviction, rejecting defendant's claims of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Gonzalez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Craig Joseph Pake, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Penny Alane Penn, Jennifer Lynn Scalia, (Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0913

    Court affirms malice murder conviction, and rejects defendant's claims of improper admission of his pre-Miranda statement and claims of improper evidence collection

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  • Pope v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jomekia Dechelle Pope, (Hays State Prison), Trion, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anita Reynolds Howard, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Macon,for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0985

    Court affirms denial of defendant's pro se motion to withdraw his guilty plea to malice murder because the motion was untimely filed

  • Vest Monroe, LLC et al. v. John Doe

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leah Ward Sears, Sasha Nina Greenberg, David V. Hayes, Kimberly Logue Woodland, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy Robinson Kelly, IV, Caitlin Derst, (Kelly & Kelly LLP), Savannah, Joseph Alan White, Scott Lester Bonder, (Fried Bonder White), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G1224

    Court reverses appellate court and affirms trial court's denial of class certification in a lawsuit against a medical service provider due to lack of typicality among class member claims

  • North American Senior Benefits, LLC v. Wimmer et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thaddeus David Wilson, Valentin Leppert, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey David Mokotoff, Leslie B. Hartnett, Laura T. Yellig, (Ford & Harrison, LLP), Atlanta, Justin Beecher Connell, (Elarbee Thompson Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Meagan Myers Hanson, Judson Herben Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, P.C.), Brunswick, John Phillip Jett, Kevin Bradford Sears, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G1146

    Georgia Supreme Court clarifies that restrictive covenants may be enforceable without express geographic terms if they are reasonable in time, area, and scope

  • McElrath v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman Maddox Kilgore, Carlos Javier Rodriguez, (Kilgore & Rodgriguez, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, Paul Richard Draper, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Stephanie Adrean Green, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0605

    Court vacates a portion of a prior opinion that had denied a plea in bar based on Constitutional Double Jeopardy and reverses that denial, thus preventing retrial on a malice murder charge

  • Grant v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Sarah Jane Thomas, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Meredith Leigh Layman, Richard Scott Harrison, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Lyle Burnham, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0843

    Court affirms felony murder conviction, finding that evidence of defendant's participation in robbery and murder was sufficient to support the verdict