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  • Walker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric C. Crawford, (Crawford & Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0737

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence to support his convictions

  • Bridges v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Timothy Lewis, (JCTL Law), Columbus, Angela Dillon, Columbus, Kenneth Wayne Sheppard, Michael Steven Webb, (The Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0773

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of trial court error on general grounds and in striking prospective jurors

  • Wright v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-08-29
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Virginia Lee Davis, Kevin Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0588

    Plea Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Advise Defendant of Stringent Standard Applying to Post-Sentence Plea Withdrawal

  • Joyner et al. v. Leapheart et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Hugh Potts, Eugene D. Butt, (James Hugh Potts II, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Irving William Drought, III, Andrew McLean Wilkes, (Oliver Maner, LLP), Savannah, Christopher Weis Phillips, (Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC), Savannah, for appellee; Jason Lance Crawford, (Crawford & Brown Law Firm LLP), Columbus, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0764

    Court reverses dismissal of a wrongful death medical malpractice claim that had been erroneously dismissed under an old version of the OCGA § 9-11-41(a) two-claim rule

  • Mobley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Scott Carter, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Monroe, Leslie Spornberger Jones, (Leslie Spornberger Jones, LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, David Christopher Williamson, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0550

    Request For Voluntary Manslaughter Instruction Properly Denied in Absence of Provocation Likely to Have Generated Passion to Kill

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  • Rayton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Forrest Geoffrey Pearce, (Pearce, LLC), Peachtree Corners for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Juliana Sleeper, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0441

    Voluntary Manslaughter Instruction Not Warranted Absent Evidence Showing Defendant Acted From Passion Rather Than Fear

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Bruce Steven Harvey, (Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, William Shawn Patrick Hammond, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0399

    Severance Properly Denied Where Separate Crimes Were Committed During Continuing Course of Criminal Violence

  • Saul E. Polanco v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelsey Geary Wiley, (Wiley Defense, P.C.), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher Mark DeNeve, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0174

    Court vacates denial of a petition for an out-ot-time pro se appeal to a felony murder conviction and remands with instructions to dismiss the motion

  • Hooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Jillian H. GibsonBradley Robert Thompson, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0289

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to trial court's failure to give a jury instruction on corroboration of confessions

  • Riley v. Georgia Association of Club Executives

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Adams Jacobs, Ross Warren Bergethon, Alex Fredrick Sponseller, John Scott Forbes, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Miles Christian Skedsvold, Zachariah Weston Lindsey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary Stuart Freed, Thomas Christopher Grant, Gerald Travis Chichester, (Freed Grant LLC), Atlanta, John Thomas Morgan, III, (Law Offices of Tom Morgan), Decatur, Alexander Volokh, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0899

    Successor Public Official Could Not be Automatically Substituted For Predecessor Official Sued in Her Individual Capacity