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  • Rutledge v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Greg Howard Bell, (Greg Howard Bell, Attorney at Alw), Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Herbert Hartwig, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1036

    Criminal Defendant Alleging Deprivation of Right of Appeal Due to Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Must Seek Habeas Relief

  • Shelton v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Tax
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole Jones, (Jones Federal & Appellate, LLC), Douglasvile, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Dalia Racine, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney’s Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0935

    Defense Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Seek Mental Health Evaluation of Defendant's Criminal Responsibility at Time of Crime

  • Brennan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-18
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Robert Roch, II, (The Roch Firm, P.C.), Canton, Kyle E. Koester, (Law Offices of Kyle E. Koester, LLC), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Thomas Durden, Jr., (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hinesville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta.
    Case Number: S21A1183

    Disclosure of Tentative Plea Agreement at USCR 33.5 Pretrial Conference Was Not Critical Stage Requiring Defendant's Presence

  • Jenkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1127

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to sufficiency and admission of evidence and assertions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Bates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Ruth Towne, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patricia Jean Brooks, James Bradley Smith, (Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1188

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over contentions from defendant, who suffered PTSD, regarding ineffective assistance of counsel

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  • Grullon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Elijah Brown-Bennett, (Taylor Lee & Associates, LLC), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Norris S. Lewis, Jr., Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee; Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Tarleton Law, LLC), Atlanta, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S21G0485

    Defendant Did Not Affirmatively Waive Claim That Trial Court Gave Erroneous Instruction on Deliberate Ignorance

  • RCC Wesley Chapel Crossing, LLC et al. v. Forrest Allen et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter J. Bibbins, Brittanie Danielle Browning, John E. Hall, Jr., (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, Ryan Matthew Ingram, David Patrick Conley, Marie Wilcox, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, Kenan G. Loomis, (Cozen O'Connor), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank Mitchell Lowrey, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Quinn Wetherington, Sr., Robert Neil Friedman, (Wetherington Law Firm), Atlanta for appellee; Andrew Alan Pinson, (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Colquitt Rogers, (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta, Kimberly D. Stevens, Willie C. Ellis, Jr., LeRyan Paige Lambert, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0029

    Court vacates and remands a class action case that addressed a private property owner's right to immobilize vehicles improperly parked on the owner's property

  • Stafford v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    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, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Richard Benjamin Caplan, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0767

    If Any, in Admitting Evidence of Earlier Crimes Was Harmless

  • Emmons, Warden v. Bryant

    Publication Date: 2021-10-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Kammer, (Mercer Law School), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0532

    Habeas Court Erred in Finding Ineffective Assistance of Appellate Counsel

  • Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. McCall

    Publication Date: 2021-10-14
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Personal Injury
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Scott Anulewicz, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Eric D. Ruben, Douglas E. Horelick, (Clyde & Co US, LLP), Miami, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cale Howard Conley, Scott A. Farrow, William Kent Owens, Jr., (Conley Griggs Partin LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; David Christopher Hanson, (Weathington LLC), Atlanta, Jeffrey S. Ward, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, Brandon Ryan Keel, (King & Spalding), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, (Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP), Atlanta,; Darren Wade Penn, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Larry Coben, (Anapol Weiss), Scottsdale, Joseph M. Colwell, (Butler Wooten & Peak LLP), Columbus, Lyle Griffin Warshauer, (Warshauer Law Group, PC), Atlanta, James E. Butler, Jr., Joel O. Wooten, Jr., Tedra L. Cannella, Ramsey B. Prather, Rory A. Weeks, (Butler, Wooten & Peak LLP), Atlanta, Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., (Schreeder, Wheeler, & Flint, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G1368

    Georgia Courts Have General Personal Jurisdiction Over Corporations Registered To Do Business in Georgia