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  • Moore v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Christian Rutledge, (Robert Christian Rutledge, PC), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, Brittany Ashton Fallin, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0985

    Court affirms murder defendants' convictions over challenges to evidence, sentencing, and jury instructions

  • Graves v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan Jeffrey Levine, (The Law Office of Alan J. Levine), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Richard Edwards, Jesse David Evans, John Stuart Melvin, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0882

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's allegations on insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melvin Cooper, Trion, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Richard Edwards, D. Victor Reynolds, Kaitlin Doyle Southmayd, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0605

    Denial of First Motion For Out-of-Time Appeal Was Res Judicata As To Second Motion For Out-of-Time Appeal

  • Tookes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michele Bass Lord, (Michelle Bass Lord), Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Car, Ashleigh Dene Headrickr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, Elizabeth Morgan Kendrick, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0674

    Defendant Failed to Show Attorney Misadvised Him as to Sentence He Would Receive If He Pleaded Guilty

  • Golson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold Burton Baker, (Tift Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, Robert Alan Rogers, (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0565

    Appellant Failed to Preserve Ineffectiveness of Counsel Claim For Appellate Review

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  • Development Authority of Cobb County et al. v. State of Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Thomas Brown, Rebecca Allison Davis, Daniel M. McRae, (Seyfarth Shaw, LLP), Atlanta, William A. Holby, Letitia A. McDonald, Gabriel Krimm, (King & Spalding, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Victor Reynolds, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Larry Savage, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0378

    Local Government Agency Had Authority to Issue Revenue Bonds to Finance Land Acquisition and Retail Development

  • The State v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2019-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Manubir Singh Arora, Devin Rafus, (Arora & Lascala, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0185

    For Purposes of General Demurrer Trial Court Lacked Authority to Consider Extrinsic Facts Not Agreed to by Prosecution

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Williams, Wrightsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karl David Cooke, Jr., (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0348

    Court Approves of Trial Court's Denial of Murder's Untimely Motion to Set Aside Its Order Denying the Movant's Motion for Postconviction Relief Where Convict, on Appeal, Identified No Errors in Denial of Motion to Reconsider and Sought Only to Challenge Denial of Underlying Motions After Time to Appeal Had Lapsed

  • Bailey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Ray Bailey, Alamo, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Richard Edwards, Benjamin M. First, D. Victor Reynolds, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0297

    Party Seeking Leave to File Out-Of-Time Appeal Failed to Show Delay Resulted From Counsel's Ineffectiveness in Filing Timely Direct Appeal

  • Spell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Betsey L. Tate, Katherine Lynn Dodd, (Georgia Public Defender Standards Council - Appellate Division), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Andrew J. Ekonomou, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, Thomas Edwars Buscemi, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0066

    Trial Counsel Was Not Constitutionally Ineffective For Failing to Challenge Prosecution's Reference to Defendant's Failure to Come Forward Prior to Arrest