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  • Steel v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Legal Operations
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Alexander "Alex" Susor, (The Law Offices of Alex Susor, P.C.), Decatur, Colette Resnik Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Lynsey M Barron, (Barron Law LLC), Atlanta, Leigh Ann Webster, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee; Ural D.L. Glanville, (Fulton County Superior Court), Atlanta, for other party; Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Smyrna, Mazie Lynn Guertin, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Greg Allen Willis, Jessica Jones, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, Edward Donald Tolley, (Cook & Tolley LLP), Athens, Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A1245

    Court reverses contempt finding against attorney for failure to disclose source of information, citing due process violations and finding that the trial court judge should have recused himself

  • Howard Russell Yntema v. Leah Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-10-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Paul Martin, (Martin Demelfi, LLC), Atlanta, Ulice Sauls, III, (Sauls Law Group LLC), Peachtree Corners, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dawn Hunsicker Taylor, (Dawn H. Taylor LLC), Suwanee, for appellee; Kathryn T. Franklin, (Franklin Family Law, PC), Buford, for other party.
    Case Number: S24C0850

    Court denies review of speech restriction order in a divorce proceeding, but acknowledges potential due process concerns for nonparties

  • Catoosa County Republican Party et al. v. Henry et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Oles, Alpharetta, Catherine Scott Bernard, Jordan Alexander Johnson, (Bernard & Johnson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Christopher Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PPLP), Chattanooga, Archibald A. Farrar, Jr., Catherine Farrar Jackson, (Farrar & Corbin, P.C.), Summerville, Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Lawrence Alan Stagg, (Stagg Law Firm, LLC), Ringgold, for appellee; Sarah E. Thompson, Statesboro, Susan P. Opraseuth, Alpharetta, for Neutral Amicus; Brent William Herrin, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0917

    Court dismisses appeal by local Republican Party organization in an election dispute over candidate qualification, stressing the importance of timeliness in election challenge cases

  • Satcher et al. v. Columbia County

    Publication Date: 2024-09-11
    Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander Dixon Revell, Harry Duff Revell, (Nicholson Revell LLP), Augusta, James Barrett Trotter, (Trotter Jones, LLP), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William James Keogh, III, James Brian Ellington, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24G0336

    Court vacates an injunction against a county and remands for consideration of a narrower injunction reflecting sovereign immunity, and rejects a homeowners' challenge to damages limitations

  • Garrison v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel J. Sliger, (McDonald & Cody, LLC), Alto, Jessica Jones, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Scott Garrett, William Jeffrey Langley, (Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Blairsville, for appellee; Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Smyrna, Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24G0007

    Court rules there is no need to prove reliance on COVID-19 emergency order to extend statute of limitations, but reverses DUI conviction and remands for applicable of proper Daubert standard

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  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, Jonathan O. Oden, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0633

    Court affirms convictions in a stabbing death, and rejects defendant's claims of jury instruction error and admission of hearsay evidence as not being reversible plain error

  • Tavarez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Horne Petrey, (Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0532

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims that his trial was compromised because he was shackled

  • Ford v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucile Miller Ruiz, (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0101

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contention of insufficient evidence, improper witness testimony, and erroneous admission of evidence

  • John Da Grosa Smith et al. v. Ryan Millsap et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-03
    Practice Area: Litigation
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Thomas Holm, (Blaska Holm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ryan Millsap, Atlanta, Aaron Matthew Clark, (Gamble Clark LLP), Atlanta, David Visser Houtsma, (David Houtsma Law Firm), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24C0302

    Court affirms trial court's authority to disburse disputed funds held in the court's registry prior to resolution of an underlying case under the specific circumstances of that case

  • Baker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth A. Baker, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0478

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and firearms possession in a double homicide over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and multiple claims of trial court error