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  • Thomas v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Richard Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (gwinnett county district Attorney’s office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1137

    Court affirms defendant's sentence for his felony murder convictions in vehicular deaths, explaining that the rule of lenity did not apply because homicide by vehicle requires different elements of proof

  • Regan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gordon Clark Hall, Jr., (Law Office of Gordon Hall, LLC), La Fayette Melinda Faye Johnson, (Johnson Law Firm), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bailey Rachel Simkoff, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0686

    Defendant's Sentence For Felony Child Molestation Violated Federal Equal Protection Rights

  • State of Georgia v. Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    Practice Area: Tax
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tiana Scogin Mykkeltvedt Michael Brian Terry, Jane D. Vincent, Laurie Ann Taylor, Amber Danielle Greenaway, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Julia Blackburn Stone, Sarah Brewerton-Palmer, Katherine Wheeler Gamsey, (Caplan Cobb LLC), Atlanta, Cory H. Isaacson, Nneka Ewulonu, (ACLU of Georgia), Atlanta, Julia Kaye, Brigitte Amiri Rebecca Chan, Johanna Zacarias, (American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.), New York, Kyla Eastling, (Planned Parenthood Federation of America), New York, Jiaman Alice Wang, Cici Coquillette, (Center for Reproductive Rights), New York, for appellee; Thomas M. Fisher, Theodore E. Rokita, James A. Barta, (Office of the Attorney General), Indianapolis, for Neutral Amicus; Jennifer Nava Ide, Atlanta, Rebecca Lunceford Kolb, Katherine L. D’Ambrosio, Jennifer Virostko, (Councill, Gunneman & Chally, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0421

    Trial Court Erred in Finding LIFE Act Was Void Ab Initio Under Roe-Era Precedent That Controlled Prior to Recent Dobbs Ruling

  • Maynor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0753

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Alleged Failure to Adequately Cross-Examine Prosecution Witness

  • Ford Motor Company v. Cosper

    Publication Date: 2023-10-11
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip Andrew Henderson, Michael Roger Boorman, (Watson Spence LLP), Atlanta, Paul Frederich Malek, D. Alan Thomas, (Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP), Birmingham, Michael W. Eady, (Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP), Austin, Timothy M Andrews, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nathan Riggs Nicholson, Matthew Evan Cook, Kate Sievert Cook, Robert Harold Childres, III, (Cook Law Group, LLC), Gainesville, C. Tab Turner, Damon C. Singleton, (Turner & Associates, P.A.), North Little Rock, David Hogue, (Hogue Law Firm, PLLC), Fayetteville, Jonathan Andrew Parrish, (The Parrish Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., Tedra L. Cannella, (Canella Snyder LLC), Atlanta, Alyssa Bernadette Baskam, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC.), Atlanta, Madeleine Norine Simmons, (Stewart Miller Simmons), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S23Q0625

    Reckless conduct under OCGA §51-1-11(c), as newly defined by the Court, is a standalone exception to the 10-year statute of repose in OCGA §51-1-11(b)(2).

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  • Kennebrew v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sara S Becker, (Sara Stewart Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Sheila Ann Ross, Peter J. Skandalakis, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0530

    Previous Testimony of Deceased Witness Properly Admitted Where Defendant Had Adequate Opportunity to Cross-Examine

  • Beltran-Gonzales v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Chappell, II, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Jameson Baugh, Matthew William Moore, Clayton McLean Fuller, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Ringgold, Chris Allen Arnt, (Superior Court Judge-LMJC), Trenton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0710

    Trial Counsel's Decision Not to Object to Joint Murder Trial Was Not Objectively Unreasonable

  • Morris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0588

    Court affirmed convictions for malice murder over defendant's contentions that the evidence was insufficient to support those convictions

  • In the Interest of A. H., a Child.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani T. Willis, Mathew Eli Plott, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Paige Andrea Pastor, Tashe Ann Dunlap, Cody Jeremiah Jung, (Fulton County Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G1035

    Court vacates its prior grant of a writ of certiorari and denies a petition for an appeal to a juvenile court's order sealing the records of a juvenile who was adjudicated delinquent

  • Wood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, III, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0637

    Evidence Did Not Support Defendant's Claim He Shot Victim in Self-Defense