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  • Sturkey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Robinson Watts, Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Mary Catherine Norman, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lewis Ramon Lamb, (Southwestern Circuit District Attorney), Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0493

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, improper statements by trial court, and ineffective assistance of trial counsel

  • Thomas v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard Jarrett Weintraub, Sr., Benjamin Black Alper, (The Law Offices of Howard J. Weintraub, P.C.), Atlanta, Elizabeth Ann Brandenburg, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, Michael Scott Carlson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Jeffrey Michael Hawkins, (Clayton County District Attorney’s Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0174

    Court affirms reconsideration of evidence suppression order in light of new trial grant, noting that end-of-term rule applies to final judgments but not to interlocutory evidentiary rulings

  • Feder v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0528

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to inconsistent jury verdicts and claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel

  • Everett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Horne Petrey, (Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Sarah Jane Thomas, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Mario Kladis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0396

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's claims of jury instruction error on justification and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Madera v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Russell Willingham, (Willingham Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0148

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's claims of trial court evidentiary errors and ineffective assistance of trial counsel

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  • First Center, Inc., et al. v. Cobb County, et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk Randall Fjelstul, Kathryn M. Zickert, William John Diehl, II, (Smith Gambrell Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell A. Britt, Pearson Kern Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, Debra Lynn Blair, Hugh William Rowling, Jr., (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0309

    Court affirms dismissal of a lawsuit challenging subdivision wall height rules, basing the dismissal on sovereign immunity grounds

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samir J. Patel, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0854

    Court affirms felony murder convictions over defendants' contentions of insufficient evidence, trial court error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Bradley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George William Thomas, Robert L. Sirianni, Jr., (Brownstone, P.A.), Winter Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani T. Willis, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0010

    Court affirms convictions for murder and assault over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • The State v. Randall

    Publication Date: 2024-02-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    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

  • Kinlaw v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Keith Higgins, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0547

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of other trial court errors