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  • Gray v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-09
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1160

    Defense Counsel Offered Reasonable Explanations For Failing to Call Witnesses to Bolster Defendant's Self-Defense Theory

  • Davis et al. v. Cicala

    Publication Date: 2020-11-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Adkins, (Attorney at Law), Duluth, Elicia Davis, Flowery Branch, Kevin McKinney, Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Moore, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1116

    Record Evidence Supported Grandparent Visitation Award

  • Bass v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia Harrison, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Howard, Dustin Lee, (Fulton County Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0791

    Court affirms convictions for rape and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and error as to the exclusion of certain evidence

  • Summers v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Ray, (Grisham & Poole, P.C.), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cliff Head, Shannon Wallace, (Assistant District Attorney), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0336

    Court affirms restitution order against defendant convicted of burglary over her objections to the sufficiency of the evidence of the value of the stolen goods

  • Castro-Moran v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Natalie Glaser, (Attorney at Law), Dublin, Sheri Smith, (Ocmulgee Circuit Public Defender's Office), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Helton, Herbert Poston, (Assistant District Attorney), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0450

    Trial Court Erred in Failing to Charge Jury on Lesser Offenses to Child Cruelty and Felony Murder

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  • Caldwell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren Shubow, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Sarah Danowitz, (Office of the Public Defender, Atlanta Judicial Cir), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marshal Hodge, Juliana Sleeper, Paul Howard, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0747

    Trial Court Erred in Sentencing Defendant as a Recidivist Because He Had Already Begun to Serve the Court's Previous Oral Sentence, Which Did Not Impose a Recidivist Sentence

  • Grayhawk Homes, Inc. v. Addison

    Publication Date: 2020-07-24
    Practice Area: Contracts | Contractual Disputes | Damages | Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lomax, (Robert R. Lomax, LLC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd Duffield, (Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0769

    Non-Compete Agreement's Liquidated Damages Provision Was Unenforceable, But Severable From the Remainder of the Agreement

  • Richey et al. v. The Kroger Company et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Denise Hoying, Peter Law, Ernest Moran, (Law & Moran), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Moffett, Jeff Wasick, (Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske LLP), Atlanta, Charles McDaniel, (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta, Ryan Kolb, (Copeland Stair Kingma & Lovell LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0363

    Court reverses summary judgment for a defendant in a negligence case because it could not say, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff did not exercise reasonable care to avoid injury

  • Odion et al. v. Avesis, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Dispute Resolution
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gege Odion, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kimberly Sheridan, (Vernis & Bowling of Atlanta, LLC), Atlanta, Deepak Jeyaram, (Jeyaram & Associates, PC), Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0658

    Trial Court Erred in Ruling That Equitable Relief Requests Stemming From Substantive Claims Were Moot, But Properly Denied Request to Vacate Arbitrator's Final Award

  • Campbell et al. v. Cirrus Education, Inc., et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-22
    Practice Area: Education Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Coffman, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Cole, William Collins, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0191

    Court affirms dismissal of wrongful termination claims by former employees of a charter school on grounds of sovereign immunity and late filing