• The State v. Kenney

    Publication Date: 2023-02-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., Michael Scott Carlson, Jayna Easton, Brice Rives Hiles, Karen S. Bemis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall Scott Estes, (Drake & Estes Law Firm), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0891

    State Affirmatively Waived Arguments For Admission of Unavailable Witness's Hearsay Statements

  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George William Thomas, (Brownstone P.A.), Winter Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Herbert Hartwig, Rodrigo L. Silva, William Marshall Kendall, (Houston County District Attorney’s Office), Perry, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A1068

    Murder Victim's Out-of-Court Statements Were Admissible at Trial

  • Moten v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lela Julia Acker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Richard Lowery Perryman, Jennifer Rue Smith, Chase Landon Studstill, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Nashville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A1214

    Court vacates order denying defendant's new trial motion and remands for consideration of amended grounds that trial court had declined to consider

  • The State v. Powell

    Publication Date: 2022-11-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon Lee Hopkins, Darius T. Pattillo, (Flint Circuit District Attorney’s Office), McDonough, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Suesan Ann Miller, Zachary North, (Miller & Key), McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0648

    Trial Court Properly Applied Riley Factors in Determining Whether Juvenile's Statements to Police Were Given Freely and Voluntarily

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    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, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory W. Edwards, Melinda April Wynne, (Dougherty County District Attorney’s Office), Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A1196

    Physical Evidence Was Sufficient to Overcome Defendant's "Unrebutted" Testimony He Fired Gun in Self-Defense

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  • The State v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2022-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Juliana Sleeper, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keisha A Steed, (Office of the Metro Conflict Defender), Atlanta, James Gabriel Banks, (Banks Weaver LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0463

    Court vacates ruling that a murder defendant was entitled to immunity and remands for further review of whether defendant carried his burden of proof

  • Garcia-Jarquin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Kay Jefferson, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cliff Head, Shannon Glover Wallace, (Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office), Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0727

    Conviction For Aggravated Assault Did Not Require Proof That Defendant Actually Pointed Gun at Victim

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (Davis Hewitt Law Firm), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Buffy Dionne Thomas, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0771

    Custodial Statements to Police Were Not Induced by Fear of Injury or Hope of Benefit Reprimand Appropriate Sanction

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George William Thomas, (Brownstone P.A.), Winter Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Mathew Eli Plott, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0815

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Ruff v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-08-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith, (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Emily Rebecca Polk, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lewis Ramon Lamb, Tami Peavy-Owen, (Southwestern Circuit District Attorney), Americus, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0709

    Trial Court Did Not Err by Providing Jury Verdict Form That Did Not Specifically Include Lesser Offenses