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  • Varner v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jennifer Leigh Parker, Greg McConnell, (Office of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0951

    Admission of Video Recording of Dying Victim's Statements to Police Did Not Violate Confrontation Clause

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David D. Marshall, (Law Office of David D. Marshall), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jeffery Wayne Hunt, (Carroll County Solicitor's Office), Carrollton, John H. Cranford, Jr., Christopher R. Kegan, (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0795

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Seek to Suppress Evidence of Defendant's Gang Membership

  • Seabrooks v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Sterling Robinson, III, (Robinson & Associates), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0688

    Trial Counsel Did Not Coerce Defendant's Decision Not to Testify at Trial

  • Bryant v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Henry Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0747

    Defendant's Last-Minute Decision Not to Testify on His Own Behalf Precluded Later Claim of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • Shubert v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Christopher Locke, (Locke Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Scott Orion Teague, (Douglas County District Attorney Office), Douglasville, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0886

    Court rejects defendant's Sixth Amendment fair cross-section claim due to insufficient data to support the claim

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  • Fofanah v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, PC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Bradley, (Ocumulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Tuttle Barksdale, (Ocumulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Eatonton, Jeff Burks, (Ocumulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Madison, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0787

    Court vacates trial court's denial of DUI defendant's motion to suppress breath test results and remands case for further consideration

  • Victoria v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, Jessica Black Wilson, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0686

    Defendant Offered No Evidence to Support His Contention His Attorneys Failed to Fully Inform Him of State's Plea Offer

  • Derrico v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-03
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Thelston Mosley, II, (Drew Mosley, LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Alane Penn, William Aubrey Finch, Jenna Thomas Murphy, (Forsyth County Solicitor General's Office), Cumming, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0665

    Road Rage Criminal Statutes Not Void For Vagueness

  • The State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2019-08-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory W. Edwards, Harold Ronald Moroz, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta.
    for defendant: Ingrid Patrice Driskell, Albany, for appellee. Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council Of Georgia), Morrow, Lee Darragh, (Hall County District Attorney's Office), Gainesville, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S19A0646

    Prosecutor's Intentional Effort to Provoke Mistrial Justified Trial Court's Denial of Retrial on Double Jeopardy Grounds

  • Seals v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-08-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Sharp, (Sharp Georgia Law Firm), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Bradley, (District Attorney, Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit), Milledgeville, Allison Mauldin, (Assistant District Attorney), Greensboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0468

    Trial Court's Sequential Jury Instruction on Lesser Included Sex Offense Was Not Plain Error