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  • Moore v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jennifer Leigh Parker, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1171

    Any Error in Admitting Evidence of Defendant's Prior Violent Acts Against Ex-Girlfriends Was Minimal; Malice Murder Conviction Affirmed

  • Howard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Brown Dillon, (Brown & Gill, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Sherry Boston, Scott Orion Teague, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1109

    Evidence Sufficiently Showed That Defendant Shot and Killed the Victim During an Attempted Robbery

  • Ricks v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bentley C. Adams, III, (Attorney at Law), Lihue, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stephen Andrew Bradley, Tammy G. Coffey, (Distict Attorney's Office, Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit), Milledgeville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0597

    Court vacates order denying murder defendant's multiple filings and remands case with instructions to dismiss those filings as being untimely or as nullities

  • Scott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-11-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Sirianni, Jr., (Brownstone, P.A.), Winter Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Henry Wayne Syms, Jr., (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, Kelly J. Weathers, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1042

    Court affirms murder and child cruelty convictions over defendant's evidentiary challenges and contention about his Miranda rights

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Elaine Hildebrand, (Hildebrand Law Office, P.C.), LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Allen Arnt, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alan Christopher Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PPLP), Chattanooga, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1394

    Circumstantial Evidence Was Sufficient to Support Armed Robbery Conviction

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  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David D. Marshall, (Law Office of David D. Marshall), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jeffery Wayne Hunt, (Carroll County Solicitor's Office), Carrollton, John H. Cranford, Jr., Christopher R. Kegan, (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0795

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Seek to Suppress Evidence of Defendant's Gang Membership

  • Abney v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0741

    Passenger in Fleeing Vehicle Was Party to Crime of Attempting to Elude Police

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Gayle Woodward Bennett, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Cara Raye Fiore, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0707

    Evidence Supported Jury's Conclusion Defendant Acted With Malice When He Fired Gun at Fleeing Vehicle

  • Mack v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0947

    Admission of Police Interviewer's Comment That Embraced Ultimate Issue at Trial Was Neither Prejudicial Nor Statutorily Barred

  • Daniels v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jennifer Lee Parker, Abigail Beth Long, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0695

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and claims of trial court error.