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  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-11-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Tarleton (The Appellate Division – GPDC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert James (District Attorney), Decatur; Sherry Boston (DeKalb County District Attorney), Decatur; Gerald Mason (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0860

    The trial court did not violate the former version of O.C.G.A. 17-8-57 when it reminded a witness during her direct examination that she was in the room when a co-defendant uttered a threat; accordingly, the Court affirmed defendant's convictions for aggravated assault and other crimes.

  • McNeal v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-11-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric J. Taylor (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Aimee F. Sobhani, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1290

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for malice murder and related crimes and the trial court did not err in refusing to give defendant's requested charge on accident, as the evidence did not support such a charge.

  • Austin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-27
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Barr (Attorney at Law), Atlanta; Brannon Burroughs (Law Office of Bob Barr), Sandy Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anne Allen (Assistant District Attorney Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton; Peter Skandalakis (District Attorney Coweta County District Attorney's Office), Lagrange; Ashley Hurley (Okelley & Sorohan LLC), Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1151

    The trial court did not err in denying defendant's petition to seal records pursuant to O.C.G.A. 42-8-62.1, Georgia's statute limiting public access to first offender records in the custody of the clerk of court, because defendant's guilty plea to repeated violations of public trust in connection with his dental profession authorized the trial court to conclude that defendant's interest in having the documents sealed was far outweighed by the public's interest in having the records available.

  • Williams v. Heard

    Publication Date: 2017-10-09
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry E. Williams (McCall Williams, LLC), Albany, for appellant
    for defendant: Lawton Chad Heard, Jr. (Tyson Heard, LLC), Camilla, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1004

    Candidate's challenge to the results of a primary election for a seat on a county board of education was moot because the general election had already taken place and she took no action to ensure that her challenge to the primary election results was considered in a timely manner.