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  • Torres v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Sabert Lowther, Bingzi Hu, (Lowther Walker LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Keith Higgins, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0659

    Defendant's Statements to Investigators Were Given Voluntarily and Were Not Induced by Hope of Benefit

  • Adkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathon Justin Majeske, (The Issa Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, Samuel Richard d’Entremont, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0796

    Circumstantial Evidence Supported Jury's Conclusion Victim Did Not Die From Suicide or Attack by Some Unknown Assailant

  • Benton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Cook Jones, Abigail Beth Long, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0104

    Defendant's First-Offender Sentence Was Not "Conviction" For Purposes of Recidivist Sentencing Law

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Elemuel Barnhill, Ian Louis Sansot, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0744

    Evidence of Lengthy Cooling-Off Period Precluded Voluntary Manslaughter Instruction

  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-08-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Henry Frier, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, William C. Enfinger, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0432

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of trial court error in charging the jury

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  • Sams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-08-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anita Reynolds Howard, Neil Alan Halvorson, Daniel Patrick Bibler, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0305

    Evidence Established Defendant Shared Criminal Intent With Others to Commit Shooting That Led to Death and Injury

  • Talley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-29
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Virginia Lee Davis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0242

    Court Did Not Err by Admitting Hearsay Statements Murder Victim Had Made Regarding Incidents Involving Defendant Litigation: Yes

  • Garay v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Tristan Wade Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0073

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of the evidence

  • Gude v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jordan Kerry Van Matre, (The Law Office of Jordan K. Van Matre, PC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0406

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting "In-Life" Photo Of Murder Victim Through His Mother's Testimony

  • General Motors, LLC v. Buchanan et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1147

    Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition