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  • Stryker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kyle A. Denslow, (Frye Law Group), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Conley Julian Greer, (Dawson County District Attorney’s Office), Dawsonville, Lee Darragh, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0125

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to trial procedures but vacates convictions and sentences for assault and battery due to merger error

  • Thompson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin David Ströberg, (Ocmulgee Circuit Public Defencer), Gray, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Faith Donnell Worley, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, III, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Eatonton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0117

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence, error in admitting prosecutor's statements, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Crary v. Clautice et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. DeLugas, (National Association Of Parents, Inc. d/b/a Parentsusa), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Jeffrey Rubin, (Rubin Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0004

    Court dismisses challenge to constitutionality of grandparent visitation statute and affirms denial of motions for contempt and for fees and expenses that appellant had sought from grandparents

  • Woods et al. v. Barnes et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Keith Webb, Russell David Willard, Susan Rose Haynes, Christopher M. Carr, Kristen Lea Settlemire, Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig Lewis Goodmark, (Goodmark Law Firm, LLC), Decatur, Gerald Richard Weber, Jr., (Law Offices of Gerald Weber, LLC), Atlanta, Philip A. Hostak, (National Education Association), Washington, for appellee; Brian C. Smith, Phillip L. Hartley, (Pereira, Kirby, Kinsinger & Nguyen, LLP), Gainesville, Lawrenceville, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S23A0821

    Court reverses lower court's decision on the constitutionality of a charter school's waiver from Fair Dismissal Act compliance

  • Reyes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Lee, Stephen Elijah Brown-Bennett, (Taylor Lee & Associates, LLC), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, (Department of Law), Atlanta, C. Rebecca Fogal, George R. Christian, (Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1135

    Court affirms the constitutionality of considering a defendant's immigration status in sentencing in a case involving charges of vehicular homicide by an undocumented immigrant

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  • Payne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine Morgan Mason, (Law Office of the Public Defender) Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony Brett Williams, (Paulding County District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1205

    Court affirms convictions in a child murder case over defendant's challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence and failure to give a jury charge, and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Holmes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reid G. Kennedy, (Law Offices of Kennedy and Kennedy), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Elizabeth Marian York, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0936

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to admission of psychiatric evidence and trial court's failure to issue an instruction on intellectual disability

  • 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
    Industry:
    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