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  • Winters v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Gladston Daniell, (Daniell Law Firm, LLC), Warner Robbins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, III, Marie R. Banks, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1234

    No Error in Admitting Witness's Post-Hypnotic Statement That Was Essentially Identical to Pre-Hypnotic Statement

  • Elliott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Jared Thomas Hall, (Thomas, Webb & Willis LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Washington Fleenor, Ethan Merritt Makin, (Athens-Clarke County Solicitor General's Office), Athens, Kenneth W. Mauldin, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee. Daniel J. Sabol, (Luftman, Heck & Associates LLP), Columbus, Donald Timothy Huey, Blaise J. Katter, (Huey Defense Firm), Columbus, for Amicus appellant. Patricia B. Attaway Burton, David Scott McLaughlinm, Paula Khristian Smith, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee. Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, William Aubrey Finch, (Forsyth County Solicitor General's Office), Cumming, David Holmes, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Neutral Amicus. Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, David Scott McLaughlin, Paula Khristian Smith, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee. Gilbert Alexander Crosby, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S18A1204

    Under Georgia Constitution, Motorist's Invocation of Right to Refuse Blood Alcohol Test Could Not Be Admitted Against Her at Trial

  • Hollmon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of The Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Emily Kathleen Richardson, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1464

    Court Affirms Dismissal of Challenge to Illegally Imposed Sentence on Basis that Post-Conviction Motion Raised Errors Not Pursued in Direct Appeal but Vacates Sentence as Legal Nullity

  • Grogan v. City Of Dawsonville

    Publication Date: 2019-02-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Keith Leibel, Paul David Menair, (Steven Leibel, P.C.), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dana B. Miles, Jonah Blue Howell, (Miles, Hansford & Tallant, LLC), Cumming, Anthony O. L. Powell, (Powell & Edwards), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1425

    City's former mayor has direct right of appeal to challenge City's action to remove him from office.

  • Mims v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Micah Jay Gates, Natalie Katherine Glaser, (Office of The Public Defender for The Conasuaga Judicial Circuit), Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr., (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1208

    Court Affirms Conviction of Murderer Who Killed Store Clerk During Robbery Spree but Reverses Theft Conviction Where Trial Counsel Failed to Pursue Motion to Sever Lesser Charges Stemming from Earlier-Committed Offenses

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  • Griggs v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-01-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee
    Case Number: S18A1594

    Court Affirms Sentence of Man Sentenced for Felony Murder Who Sought Sentencing Under Conviction for Manslaughter

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Scott L. Ballard, Benjamin David Coker, Brittany Ashton Fallin, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office) Thomaston, for appellee
    Case Number: S18A1438

    Court Affirms Murder Conviction Where New Exculpatory Witness Came Forward but Motion for New Trial Was Denied Due to Lack of Witness Credibility

  • Walter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-12-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council) Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard, Jr., Arthur C. Walton, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta; Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Office Of The Fulton County District Attorney), for appellee
    Case Number: S18A1241

    No trial court error in refusing to sever a trial, in giving jury instructions, and in allowing non-accomplice testimony without corroboration.

  • The State v. Almanza

    Publication Date: 2018-10-26
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amelia Greeson Pray, D. Victor Reynolds, Michael Scott CarlsonJohn Richard Edwards, John Stuart Melvin, Charles Prescott Boring, Lindsay Beth Gardner, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Andrew Howard Agatston, (Andrew H. Agatston, Pc.), Marietta, Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr., (Isenberg & Hewitt, Pc), Atlanta, Donna Coleman Stribling, Anna Watkins Davis, William Thomas Kemp, III, (Dekalb County Solicitor General's Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, John B. Merchant, III, (The Merchant Law Firm, Pc.), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0585

    New Georgia Evidence Rule 803(4) allows admission of hearsay where a treating physician relies on a declarant's statement in a diagnosis

  • Cato v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-10-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric J Taylor, Anna Joseph Kurien, (Office of The Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Deputy, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0669

    No trial court error in jury instructions on aggravated assault