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  • The State v. Peppers

    Publication Date: 2023-10-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David White, (District Attorney), Hartwell, Jeffrey Lee, (Elbert County District Attorney’s Office), Elberton, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Smith, (Law Office of James W. Smith), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0855

    Court reverses a trial court's grant of a motion for a new trial, which grant had been based on insufficient evidence, because double jeopardy precluded a new trial

  • Adams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Randall Scarborough, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0758

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Hamilton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Yelton Peace, (Manning Peace, LLC), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, Anita Reynolds Howard, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0670

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Kennebrew v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sara S Becker, (Sara Stewart Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Sheila Ann Ross, Peter J. Skandalakis, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0530

    Previous Testimony of Deceased Witness Properly Admitted Where Defendant Had Adequate Opportunity to Cross-Examine

  • Campus v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-09
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricardo Campus, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Christopher DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1158

    Trial Court Properly Dismissed Out-of-Term Motion to Withdraw Guilty Pleas

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  • Salvesen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard W Anderson, III, (Truluck Thmason LLC), Greenville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0433

    Murder Defendant Was Not Unduly Prejudiced by Admission of Gruesome Photograph of Victim's Decomposed Body

  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raphael Carter, (Telfair State Prison), Helena, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0522

    Merger-Error Claims Did Not Support Untimely Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea

  • The State v. Ault

    Publication Date: 2023-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Higgins, (District Attorney's Office for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, Benjamin Gephardt, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Kingsland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Tucker, (Tucker & Browning Law, P.C.), Brunswick, Adrienne Browning, (Adrienne Browning, Attorney at Law, P.C.), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0792

    Court vacates 7-yer sentence for burglary and remands for resentencing to 25 years under the recidivist statute because defendant was a habitual felon

  • Brown v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Chappell, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lenny Krick, Sherry Boston, (Assistant District Attorney-Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0971

    Court affirms child molestation convictions over defendant's contentions of jury instruction error and alleged error regarding the reliability of a witness

  • Martin-Argaw v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Christopher Lewis, (Gwinnett Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0990

    Court affirms convictions for attempted murder over defendant's contention that trial court erroneously excluded evidence about a witness's pending criminal indictment