• Ward v. Medina

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ronald Edwards Daniels, (Daniels Taylor Law LLC), Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Chei-Ming Chen, (Steven C. Chen PC), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0264

    Court affirms grant of habeus relief to defendant who involuntarily pled guilty to armed robbery on the basis of affirmative misrepresentations

  • Smith, Warden v. Chandler

    Publication Date: 2023-06-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Kammer, Chris Alviz. Alexandra Hofstetter, Lilly Nickels, Taylor Rinberger, (Mercer Habeas Project), Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0224

    Court affirms petition for habeus relief where petitioner, who was convicted of child molestation, made claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel

  • The State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2023-06-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Kelcee Nikki Jones-Connor, Adam Robert Abbate, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rickey L. Richardson, (Rickey L. Richardson PC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0090

    Supreme Court Had Jurisdiction to Hear States's Appeal From Pretrial Rulings That Were Never Reduced to Writing

  • Marlon Ellis v. Edward Philbin, Warden

    Publication Date: 2023-06-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marlon Ellis, Grovetown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Whitener Hamilton, (Plunkett, Hamilton, Manton & Graves, LLP), Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22H1172

    Habeas Claimant's Second Petition Denied After Previous Petition Was Denied on Grounds of Res Judicata and Lack of Exhaustion

  • The State v. Carswell

    Publication Date: 2023-04-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Bibler, (Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Houston Judicial Circuit), Perry, Anita Howard, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office Office of the District Attorney Macon Judicial Circuit), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Erikka Williams, (Williams Law Group), Warner Robins, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0209

    State Could Not Appeal From Trial Court Order on Motion Filed Less Than 30 Days Before Scheduled Start of Trial

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  • Meadows v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Titus Thomas Nichols, (Nichols Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0110

    Supreme Court Has No Statutory Authority to Act as "Thirteenth Juror" And Then Grant New Trial

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy Dodd Roth, Lydia Martell Schlitt, (Augusta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Bradley Smith, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee; Jill Anderson Travis, Mazie Lynn Guertin, Natalie Katherine Glaser, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Jason B. Sheffield, (Peters, Rubin, Sheffield & Hodges), Decatur, Kenneth Wayne Sheppard, Smyrna, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Drew F. Waldbeser, (Lehotsky Keller LLP), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.

    Case Number: S22A0964

    Pro Se Filing Made by Defendant Actually or Presumptively Represented by Counsel Not Necessarily a Nullity

  • Ali v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melissa Akins, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Darius Pattillo, (District Attorney), McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0995

    Court vacates order that denied a motion for an out-of-time appeal and directs trial court to enter an order dismissing the motion

  • Behl v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bonnie Lowe Jones, Shalena Cook Jones, Bryan Michael Roy, Timothy Patrick Dean, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0377

    Incarcerated Pro Se Defendant Failed to Preserve Issue of Alleged Denial of Access to Digital Discovery

  • Porter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Oxford, (Oxford Law Firm), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Adams, (Office of the District Attorney, Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Jackson, Dorothy Hull, (Assistant District Attorney), Forsyth, Jessica Haygood, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Forsyth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1719

    Court dismisses appeal because it had no jurisdiction over it, given that defendant had pending motions for a new trial or arrest in judgment before the trial court