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  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1242

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Evidence of Guns and Ammunition Found When Defendant Was Arrested

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky J. Johnson, (Coffee Correctional Facility), Nicholls, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Alane Penn, James Aaron Dunn, (Forsyth County District Attorney's Office), Cumming, for appellee; Thomas Vernon Burch, Courtney Hogan, Kirstiana Perryman, (UGA School of Law), Athens, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0673

    Court of Appeals Used Wrong Analysis in its Review of Merger Claims Arising From Multiple Convictions for Same Crime

  • Hines v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Juliana Sleeper, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta,for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1079

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and malice murder where defendant challenged testimony from a witness that was not identified at least ten days before trial

  • DeVanna v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gerald Lee Henderson, Jeffrey Paul Kwiatkowski, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0990

    Malice Murder Defendant Fails to Show Prejudice From Trial Counsel's Jury Instruction on Self-Defense Claim

  • Harper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen H Brouse, (Brouse Law), Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Ellen Patterson, Morgan Birdsong Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney’s Office), Rome, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0813

    Trial Court Did Not Err When it Failed to Instruct Court Reporter to Transcribe the Entirety of the Jury Selection Proceedings, Including Voir Dire

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  • Parrott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-10-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Keegan Christian Gary, (Paulding County Public Defender's Office), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anthony Brett Williams, Matthew Wayne Rollins, (Paulding County District Attorney's Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0753

    I Defendant Did Not Receive Multiple Punishments For Same Offense Simply by Being Resentenced to Correct Void Sentence

  • Collins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-10-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joyette Marie Holmes, John Richard Edwards, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0627

    Provision of Accomplice-Corroboration Jury Instruction Did Not Preclude Instruction on Witness's Unknowing Participation

  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0568

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to trial court's denial of admission of cumulative evidence regarding victim's violent behavior

  • The State v. Gilmore

    Publication Date: 2021-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luke Anthony Martin, Leigh Ellen Patterson, Morgan Birdsong Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Ross Hamrick, Sean Justin Lowe, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Rome, for Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G1430

    Court reverses denial of admission of a video showing a drug purchase by a now-deceased confidential information, finding no Confrontation Clause violation

  • Sims v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Henry Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0874

    Evidence Supported Jury's Inference That Crime Took Place in County Where Defendant Was Tried