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  • Golden v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1273

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and other trial court evidentiary rulings

  • Beck v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek M. Wright, (Derek M. Wright, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tasha Monique Mosley, Karen Smith Barbour, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1152

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contentions of juror misconduct and trial court error over jury instructions and denial of certain evidence

  • Trammell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Messinger, (Western Circuit Public Defender's Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carroll Chisholm, Sara Adams, (Athens-Clarke Solicitor General's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1942

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress because the search that discovered a false identification was pursuant to an unlawful arrest

  • State v. Loechinger

    Publication Date: 2020-12-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lenny Krick, (Assistant District Attorney-Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit), Decatur, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Meredith McCarrey, (Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1638

    Court reverses an order that had granted a motion to suppress when evidence of contraband was found during a valid inventory search of an impounded vehicle

  • Thornton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jad Baskin Johnson, David James Dunn, Jr., Victor Philip Aloisio, III, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Megan Sandra Deitz, A.D.A., Christopher Allen Arnt, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, for appellee. Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S20G0613

    Game Warden Was Authorized to Limit Sound Emitted by Car Stereo; Evidence at Trial Was Sufficient to Sustain Convictions for Obstruction

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  • Hughes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly Laverne Copeland, (Kimberly L. Copeland & Associates, LLC), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1309

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Find Defendant Guilty for Felony Murder; Trial Court Did Not Give Incorrect or Incomplete Charges on Felony Murder or Proximate Cause

  • Merritt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Mark Shelnutt, (The Law Offices of J. Mark Shelnutt), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Frederick Lewis, Wesley Allen Lambertus, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1190

    No Error in Trial Court's Refusal to Instruct on Voluntary Manslaughter and Duty to Retreat

  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Alexander Miller, (Steven A. Miller Law), Summerville, Christina Rupp Cribbs, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Allen Arnt, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., Kevin Jameson Baugh, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1081

    Any Error in Admission of Statement Implicating Co-Conspirator Was Harmless

  • Bettis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifford Kurlander, (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Henry Syms, (Office of the District Attorney), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1387

    Trial Court Did Not Violate Defendant's Confrontation Rights by Admitting an Expert Witness' Out-of-Court Statements and Test Results

  • Nails v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean Lowe, (Assistant Public Defender), Ringgold, Jonathan Hamrick, (Rome Circuit Public Defender Office), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, (District Attorney), Rome, Luke Martin, (Floyd County District Attorney), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1355

    Extrinsic Evidence of Defendant's Jailhouse Phone Conversation Regarding Drug-Sale Activity Was Properly Admitted at Trial