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  • Burgess v. Hall

    Publication Date: 2019-05-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brenda Joy Bernstein, (The Bernstein Firm, PC), Palmetto, Leigh Ann Webster, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Franklin Daniel Miller, (King Law Group), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0041

    Trial Counsel's Failure to Focus on Co-Defendant's Limited Intellectual Capacity During Cross-Examination Did Not Constitute Ineffective Assistance

  • State v. Perry

    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Donovan, Anthony Williams, Alexandria Clark, (Paulding Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mason Rountree, (Rountree Law Firm), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A2110

    Be-On-Lookout Warning Provided Objective, Reasonably Articulable Suspicion Warranting Traffic Stop of Vehicle

  • Debelbot et al. v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Moffett Flournoy, III, Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers, James C. Bonner, Jr., Brandon A. Bullard, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, A. James Anderson, (Robins Kaplan LLP), Atlanta, Anna Carr Halsey, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Carrie Sperling, (Wisconsin Innocence Project: University Of Wisconsin Law), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Sadhana Pandey Dailey, Alonza Whitaker, (Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee. Therese S. Barnesr, (Georgia Supreme Court), Atlanta, for Other party.
    Case Number: S18A1073

    Trial Court's Conclusory Rejection of Defendants' Expert Witness Evidence Precluded Meaningful Review of Ineffectiveness of Counsel Claim

  • The State v. Lee

    Publication Date: 2019-04-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Faircloth, (Dublin Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney), Dublin, Louie Fraser, (District Attorney), Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Abigail Safford, (Attorney at Law), Dublin, Spencer Fredericks, (Dublin Circuit Public Defender's Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1869

    Police Not Required to Give Detained Co-Occupant/Defendant Opportunity to Object to Officers' Entry Into Residence

  • Black v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Lee, (Hernan Taylor & Lee LLC), Norcross, Stephen Brown-Bennett, (Taylor Lee & Associates, LLC), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, (District Attorney), Rome, Kayleigh Carter, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1697

    Judge Abused Her Discretion By Neglecting to Consider and Address Trial Counsel's Untimely Motion to Withdraw

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  • Conley v. Pate

    Publication Date: 2019-04-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Melvin King, Jr., (King Law Group), Dublin, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ecleynne Mercy, (Mercy Law P.C.), Atlanta, Timothy Orman McCalep, (The Law Office of Timothy McCalep PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1121

    Court reverses habeus petition on 20-year sentence for statutory rape

  • Park v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Citronberg, Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Tina Michelle Piper, Paula Khristian Smith, Rebecca Jean Dobras, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Vincent James Faucette, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm LLC), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1211

    Statute that required persons designated as sexually dangerous predators to wear GPS devices for life is declared unconstitutional

  • Fulton County v. City of Atlanta et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Legislation
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kaye Woodard Burwell, Denval Anthony Stewart, Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker, Emily C. Hirst, (Office of The Fulton County Attorney), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emmet J. Bondurant, David Gregory Hill Brackett, Robert Lawrence Ashe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Brian Kemp, (Georgia State Board of Elections), Atlanta, Nina Hickson, Jeffrey Spencer Haymore, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr., (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, Joseph Daniel Young, (Joseph D. Young, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1156

    Court rejects County's constitutional challenge to Atlanta's property annexation

  • Wyno v. Lowndes County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: O. Wayne Ellerbee, John Gee Edwards, (The Ellerbee Law Firm), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James L. Elliott, (Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding, P.C.), Valdosta, for appellee. Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, Susan Janan Moore, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, G. Joseph Scheuer, Kelly Jean Long Pridgen, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus appellee. Ross Warren Bergethon, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S18A1231

    Georgia Constitution Immunizes Government Employees From Liability Arising From Discretionary Enforcement of Dog Control Ordinances

  • Grant v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    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, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Eugene Hutto, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1060

    Defendant, Not Prosecution, Bore Burden of Showing That Array of Prospective Jurors Did Not Represent Cross-Section of Community