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  • Jordan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1226

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Concluding Hearsay Testimony Was Admissible Under Co-Conspirator Exception

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, Ashutosh S. Joshi, (Joshi Law Firm, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Dustin Jeremiah Lee, (Fulton County Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1264

    State Failed to Show That Defendant Was Guilty of the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a First-Offender Probationer; Conviction Reversed

  • Hopwood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Mitchell Harrison, (Oconee Circuit Public Defender Oconee Cirucit), Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Timothy Grady Vaughn, Keely Kight Pitts, (Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Eastman, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1436

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Authorize Jury to Find That Defendant Intended to Shoot Her Boyfriend and That the Firing of the Weapon Was Not Accidental

  • Guerrero v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eliot Jay Abt, (ABT Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jessica Black Wilson, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Lyons, Samuel H. Altman, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1129

    Court in Murder Trial Did Not Err in Refusing to Charge Jury on Justification

  • Mobley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-11-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon A. Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, James C. Bonner, Jr., (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, Margaret Elizabeth Bullard, (Fulton County Public Defender's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sharon Lee Hopkins, Darius T. Pattillo, (Flint Circuit District Attorney's Office), McDonough, for appellee. Sean Jengwei Young, Nathan Freed Wessler, Jennifer Stisa Granick, (American Civil Liberties Union Foundation), Atlanta, Riana Pfefferkorn, Stanford, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S18G1546

    Court reverses vehicular homicide convictions due to violations of defendant's Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures

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  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Allen Pflepsen, (Woodall and Pflepsen, P.C.), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Gregory W. Edwards, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0749

    Insufficient Evidence That Participants in Bar Fight Were Parties to Later Fatal Shooting in Parking Lot

  • Franklin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina M Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Smyrna, 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., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0533

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's arguments on sufficiency of evidence, testimony from non-sequestered witness, and trial counsel's effectiveness

  • Benton v. Hines

    Publication Date: 2019-10-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0927

    Defendant Not Prejudiced by Trial Counsel's Failure to Impeach Prosecution Witness as to Details of Plea Deal

  • Lee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy Dodd Roth, Katherine Morgan Mason, (Augusta Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, Rebecca Ashley Wright, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0661

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's objections to evidence and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and trial court error

  • Foreman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashley A. Cooper, Michael Devlin Cooper, (Cooper, Barton, & Cooper, L.L.P.), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Leigh Ellen Patterson John Frank McClellan, Jr., (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0715

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, denial of due process, and ineffective assistance of counsel