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  • Kammerer Real Estate Holdings, LLC v. Forsyth County Board of Commissioners et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-08
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Land Use and Planning | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Spicer Ray, Jeremy Ethan Underwood, Joshua Adam Scoggins (Miles Hansford & Tallant, LLC), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Edward Jarrard, Jeffrey J Costolnick (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming; Jesse A. Van Sant (The Gore Law Firm, LLC), Alpharetta; Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr. (ACCG), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0924

    The trial court erred in dismissing some of plaintiff's claims against a county, a board of commissioners and the director of the county's Department of Planning and Community Development in connection with the director's refusal to issue a site development permit to plaintiff so that it could construct an automotive service facility on its lot.

  • Arnold v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Anna Green Cross (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur; Harry Steven Ruth (Office of the District Attorney), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1041

    Although defendant argued on appeal that State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was not justified in shooting the victim, questions about the existence of justification were for the jury to decide, and the evidence supported the jury's determination that State met its burden.

  • Miller v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker (Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council, Appellate), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Meyerhoefer, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Matthew Jon Landreau, Jennifer Elizabeth Dunlap (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1101

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for murder and other crimes, the trial court's inadvertent failure to poll one of the 12 jurors after the jury returned its verdict did not require automatic reversal and defendant waived his argument that the statute of limitations barred his prosecution for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and threatening a witness.