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  • Rivera v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lon Powell Kemeness, (Lon P. Kemeness), Tifton, 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, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0429

    Court reverses a rape conviction due a defective indictment but affirms a felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to admission of other acts evidence

  • Roberts v. Cuthpert

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, or appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Christopher Waymire, Terry Eugene Williams, (Williams & Waymire, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0631

    Court holds that a party can seek costs and fees from a judge who denied a weapons carry license, finding that the judge did not have a sovereign immunity defense to the claim

  • Funvestment Group, LLC v. Robyn A. Crittenden

    Publication Date: 2023-10-05
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Leland Walker, Paul Oliver, Les A. Schneider, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julie Adams Jacobs, Ross Warren Bergethon, Logan B. Winkles, Ronald Joseph Stay, Jr., Melody Chapman, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul Richard Draper, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Christopher Scott Anulewicz, (Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP), Atlanta, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Patrick N. Silloway, James Mitchell Fucetola, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S22G1247

    Revenue Generated From Lease of Coin Operated Amusement Machines Was Exempt From Sales and Use Taxes

  • Wise Business Forms, Inc. v. Forsyth County et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George E. Butler, II, (Law Offices of George E. Butler II, LLC), Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Julie Adams Jacobs, Alkesh Bhanuprasad Patel, Logan B. Winkles, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher J. Hamilton, Gregory Aaron Meyer, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Luther Harold Beck, Jr., Mary Josephine Leddy Volkert, John Harold Zwald, (Beck Zwald & Associates LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0874

    Claim For Inverse Condemnation by Permanent Nuisance Accrued When Property Owner First Discovered Damage

  • Annunziata v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    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, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0715

    Evidence Did Not Warrant Instruction on Voluntary Manslaughter

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  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anita Reynolds Howard, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0595

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Not Objecting to Witness's Testimony That Defendant Hit and Threatened Her After He Committed Crime

  • Greene v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Eric Christopher Peters, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Dalia Racine, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney’s Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0200

    Any Error In Admitting Evidence of Prior Assaults on Murder Defendant's Ex-Girlfriends Was Harmless

  • Head v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Ann Brandenburg, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Burke Olivia Doherty, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0111

    Sufficient Evidence Was Presented at Trial to Corroborate Accomplice's Testimony of Defendant's Involvement in Crime

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elaine L. Thompson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0166

    No Brady Violation From Delayed Disclosure of Crime Scene Technician's Failure to Find Fingerprints on Shell Casing

  • Blalock v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Michael Treadaway, (Treadaway & Treadaway), Marietta, Megan Webb Grout, (The Law Offices of Megan W. Grout), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0259

    Court affirms malice murder convictions over defendant's challenge to timing of production of discovery and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel