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Publication Date: 2024-01-11 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Justice Warren Attorneys:For plaintiff: Sara S Becker, (Sara Stewart Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee. Case Number: S23A0948
Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes, finding that defendant's contentions that the trial court erred by refusing to give a self-defense instruction was harmless error
Publication Date: 2024-01-11 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Presiding Justice Peterson Attorneys:For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Eric Christopher Peters, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Margaret Hinchey DeLeon, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Gabriel Adam Justus, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee. Case Number: S23A1078
Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of various trial court errors, all of which were either harmless or unpreserved for appeal
Publication Date: 2024-01-10 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Presiding Justice Peterson Attorneys:For plaintiff: David H Jones, (David H. Jones LLC), Decatur, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Eric Christopher Peters, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rosemary M. Greene, Whitney Anne Law, (District Attorney’s Office of the Cherokee Judicial Circuit), Cartersville, for appellee. Case Number: S23A0894
Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel
Publication Date: 2024-01-10 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Justice Pinson Attorneys:For plaintiff: Charles Henry Frier, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Mathew Eli Plott, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee. Case Number: S23A0881
Court affirms convictions of three co-defendants in a shooting death over their contentions of insufficient evidence, improper admission of certain evidence, and challenges to jury instructions
Publication Date: 2024-01-10 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Justice LaGrua Attorneys:For plaintiff: Wendell Rocky Adams, (Office of the Public Defender), Dublin, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee. Case Number: S23A0893
Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel as top a potential insanity defense
Publication Date: 2024-01-09 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Chief Justice Boggs Attorneys:For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Allison Thatcher Mauldin, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, Jeff Preston Burks, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Madison, for appellee. Case Number: S23A0861
Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's claims of improper admission of a custodial interview and hearsay evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel
Publication Date: 2024-01-09 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Justice Pinson Attorneys:For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jonathan Lang Adams, Carolee Reed Jordan, Jessica Brooke Haygood, Dorothy Vinson Hull, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, for appellee. Case Number: S23A0802
Court affirms felony murder conviction ove defendant's claims of insufficient evidence, rejection of self-defense claims, error in jury instructions, and ineffective assistance of counsel
Publication Date: 2024-01-09 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Supreme Court Judge:Justice LaGrua Attorneys:For plaintiff: Ivars Lacis, (Lacis Law, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant. for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Harold Alvin Buckler, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, Lee Darragh, Kelley Martin Robertson, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee. Case Number: S23A0857
Court affirms felony and malice murder convictions in the shooting death of a deputy sheriff, rejecting all challenges from co-defendants in a consolidated appeal.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08 Practice Area:Family Law | Immigration Law Industry: Court:Georgia Court of Appeals Judge:Judge Brown Attorneys:For plaintiff: Rebeca Salmon, (Attorney at Law), Norcross, for appellant. for defendant: Cathy Lerow, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for appellee. Case Number: A23A1775
Court affirms finding of dependency and an award of custody, but remands the case for specific findings on a child's special immigrant juvenile status
Publication Date: 2024-01-05 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Georgia Court of Appeals Judge:Presiding Judge McFadden Attorneys:For plaintiff: Katherine Mason, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for appellant. for defendant: Jonathan Adams, (Office of the District Attorney, Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Jackson, Dorothy Hull, (Assistant District Attorney), Forsyth, for appellee. Case Number: A23A1278
Court reverses defendant's forgery convictions due to improper removal and replacement of a juror by the trial court