• Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd Matthews, (Attorney at Law), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, Tracy Lawson, Yolanda McKenney, (Clayton County District Attorney Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0430

    Remand Necessary to Determine Whether Conviction Resulted From Trial or Negotiated Plea

  • Bell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Shane Howard, (McMillan & Rawlings, LLP), Sandersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Scott Orion Teague, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Henry Wayne Syms, Jr., Rebecca Ashley Wright, Kevin Richard Majeska, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0174

    Murder conviction affirmed over defendant's claim that the State failed to prove that he shot the victims

  • Parks v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia Wright Harrison, (Harrison Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, F. McDonald Wakeford, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0243

    Court affirms life imprisonment sentence for malice murder defendant

  • Outler v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council, Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Samuel H. Altman, Kelly Anne Jenkins, Tony Allen May, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0158

    Court dismisses murder defendant's appeal but vacates other convictions due to merger and other errors.

  • Wofford v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen H Brouse, (Brouse Law), Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Jason Matthew Rea, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Leigh Ellen Patterson, Kevin Salmon, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0129

    Court rejects murder defendant's arguments on ineffective assistance of counsel

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  • Luckie v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2019-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore, Meagan Hurley, Ezra Addison Gantt, (Mercer Law School), Macon, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0100

    Court affirms denial of habeus petition over drug defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Hart v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L Floyd, Talking Rock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Jeffrey Langley, Samantha Lauren Barrett, (Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cleveland, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0031

    Murder convictions affirmed over defendant's challenge regarding the State's failure to prove that the victim's death was not accidental

  • Oliver v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | 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, Elizabeth Haase, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Roderick B. Wilkerson, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0019

    Murder conviction affirmed over defendant's claim that he was denied a right of self-representation

  • Koonce v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    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: S19A0012

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's multiple claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Ryan Andrew Mullins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Gough, (Attorney at Law), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Barnhill, (Assistant District Attorney), Waycross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0345

    Court Reverses Trial Court Order Dismissing Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea as Untimely Where Trial Court Based Ruling on Date Sentence Was Pronounced but Sentence Was Filed by Clerk in Subsequent Term