Filter This View

  • Mattox v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy Lee Copeland, (Rouse & Copeland, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Thomas Durden, Jr., Joe Grady Skeens, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0026

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and a due process violation

  • Corley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teri L. Thompson, (Law Office of Teri Thompson, LLC), Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0214

    Note From Jury to Trial Court Delivered During Deliberation Did Not Establish Jury Had Reached Final Verdict

  • Debelbot v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Moffett Flournoy, III, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Columbus, Carrie Sperling, (Wisconsin Innocence Project: University of Wisconsin Law School), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sadhana Pandey Dailey, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Alonza Whitaker, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1474

    Trial Counsel Should Have Objected to Prosecutor's Gross Misstatement of Reasonable Doubt Standard During Closing Argument

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin J Hogue, (Hogue Hogue Fitzgerald & Griffin, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1404

    Felony First-Offender Probationer Who Shot and Killed Another to Protect Himself Could Claim Self-Defense Under OCGA §16-3-21(a)

  • Richardson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Brown Dillon, (Brown & Gill, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Mark Geller, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Clark Ellison Candler, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0306

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's contentions of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Rules 2024

    Authors:

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Danny Wells, (Flint Circuit Public Defender's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Aslean Zachary Eaglin, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1588

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Hearsay Testimony, Which Was Admissible Under the Necessity Exception to the Hearsay Rule

  • Naples v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry M. Hazen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rachelle L. Carnesale, Shannon Glover Wallace, Cliff Head, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1571

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting 'Other Acts' Evidence in Trial Convicting Defendant of Murdering a 17-Month-Old Child

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry David Wolfe, Bingzi Hu, (L. David Wolfe, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19G0125

    Trial Court Lacked Authority to Dismiss Counts of Child Pornography Indictment at the Pretrial Stage of the Proceedings

  • Dozier v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Brown Dillon, (Brown & Gill, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0100

    Ample Evidence Supported Jury Conclusion That Participant in Home Robbery Shared Shooter's Criminal Intent

  • Wilkerson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Rupp Cribbs, Veronica M. O'Grady, (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas S. Bishop, (Patula Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cuthbert, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19G0472

    In granting a defendant's motion for a new trial, the trial court did not improperly conflate standards for legal sufficiency of evidence with general grounds standards