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  • Demuro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Aletha Claire Farley, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0647

    Court Reporter's Difficulty Transcribing Court's Verbal Instructions Insufficient to Establish Instructions Were Not Complete

  • Hatcher v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Laurie Elyse Baio, (Office of The District Attorney, Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Billy Joe Nelson, Jr., Donna Renee Sims, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0465

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contention of ineffective assistance of counsel over failure to object to expert testimony

  • Rountree v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl A. Veline, Jr., (Carl A. Veline), Warner Robins for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rodrigo L. Silva, William Marshall Kendall, (Houston County District Attorney’s Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0531

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over contentions that trial court committed plain error by rejecting jury charges on voluntary manslaughter and mutual combat

  • Burley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Banks Thomas Smith, Sr., Moruf O. Oseni, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0322

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contention that the trial court erred by not instructing the jury on malice murder

  • Knox et al. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2023-06-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Education Law | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Crane Canfield, Brian Charles Lea, Sharnell S. Simon, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Amanda K. Rice, (Jones Day), Detroit, for appellant.
    for defendant: Annette M. Cowart, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Sarah Brewerton-Palmer, Michael Adam Caplan, (Caplan Cobb LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23A0167

    Trial Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Adjudicate Challenge to Statute Permitting Firearm Possession on College Campuses

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  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Devin Austin Rafus, Manubir Singh Arora, (The Aurora Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Dane Jefferson Uhelski, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0203

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and firearm possession over defendant's multiple contentions of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • O'Neal v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eliot Jay Abt, (Abt Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Katie Alice Hingerty Borodin, (The Hingerty Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sheila Ann Ross, (Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia), Morrow, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0034

    Evidence Supported Jury's Conclusion Defendant and Others Mutually Conspired to Rob Victim

  • The State v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2023-05-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Keely Kight Pitts, Timothy Grady Vaughn, (Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Edward Jones, (Jones & Oliver, P.C.), Fort Valley, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0420

    Court vacates ruling that other-acts evidence is inadmissible and remands for performance of a balancing test as per the court's analysis

  • Meadows v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Titus Thomas Nichols, (Nichols Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0110

    Supreme Court Has No Statutory Authority to Act as "Thirteenth Juror" And Then Grant New Trial

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jess William Clifton, Lyons, Timothy Larry Lam, Monticello, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Alexander Fitzner, Jessica Black Wilson, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Lyons, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0144

    Evidence Supported Jury's Finding Defendant Was Party to Murder