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  • Redmon v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2018-02-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jarvis Redmon, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Samuel S. Olens (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16H1197

    The Supreme Court of Georgia summarily denied petitioners application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal the habeas courts final order denying his petition for habeas corpus challenging his criminal convictions and clarified the process by which it renders these decisions.

  • In The Matter Of John F. Meyers.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Winslow Hewett, Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: S. Lester Tate, III, W. Matthew Wilson (Akin & Tate PC), Cartersville, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Bridget B. Bagley, Atlanta; David Anthony LaMalva, (LaMalva Geoffroy & Oeland PC), Conyers; Anthony B. Askew, Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17Y1593

    The Supreme Court suspended an attorney from the practice of law for two years for his violations of various Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct in connection with improper billing to his law firm's corporate client.

  • In The Matter Of April Dabney-Froe.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren Raymond Hinds (Warren R. Hinds, P.C.), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17Y1823

    The Supreme Court accepted an attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of her license to practice law arising out of her multiple failures to promptly give clients an accounting of settlement proceeds, disburse settlement funds, and/or pay medical bills in her clients cases.

  • In re Formal Advisory Opinion No. 16-2.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-20
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, III, John Joseph Shiptenko (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S17U0553

    The Supreme Court approved Formal Advisory Opinion No. 16-2, which addresses whether an attorney who has been appointed to serve both as legal counsel and as guardian ad litem for a child in a termination of parental rights case can advocate termination over the child's objection.

  • In The Matter Of Nolen Arthur Hamer.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nolen Arthur Hamer (Hamer Law Firm), Cumming, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta; Jessica Oglesby, Atlanta; Thomas L. Holder (Long & Holder), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17Y1988

    The Supreme Court disbarred an attorney after previously rejecting his petition for voluntary discipline, in which he sought a Review Panel reprimand for his admitted violations of several of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.

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  • Moore v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Moore, Abbeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith (District Attorney's Office), Augusta; Henry Syms (Office of the District Attorney), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1457

    Defendant's sentence on his child molestation conviction was void as a matter of law because it did not comply with the O.C.G.A. § 17-10-6.2 split-sentence requirement.

  • Jordan v. Everson et al

    Publication Date: 2017-11-08
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Jeffrey Frisch (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal Henry Howard (Neal H. Howard & Associates), Columbus; Simon Weinstein (Law Office of Simon Weinstein, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Carl Richard Langley, Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: S17G1491

    The Court of Appeals erred in holding that an independent, intervening act breaks the chain of causation in a wrongful death case only to the extent that the independent, intervening act is wrongful or negligent; rather, the act only has to be reasonably foreseeable by the alleged tortfeasor or triggered by his conduct.

  • In The Matter Of Anthony Sylvester Kerr

    Publication Date: 2017-10-06
    Practice Area: Legal Education
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Winslow Hewett, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony Sylvester Kerr, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17Y1623

    The Supreme Court disbarred an attorney in connection with his conduct in three disciplinary matters.

  • In the Matter of Joanna Temple

    Publication Date: 2017-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joanna Temple, St. Simons Island. Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and Jonathan W. Hewett, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S17Y0496

    The Supreme Court accepted an attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of her license to practice law following her conviction for attempted criminal usury in the second degree in connection with

  • In the Matter of Shanina N. Lank

    Publication Date: 2017-01-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and Rebecca A. Hall, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Shanina N. Lank, Snellville. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S16Y0723; S16Y0724; S16Y0725

    The Supreme Court suspended an attorney for at least one year for her violations of Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 1.4, 1.15 II, 1.16 an