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  • Boynton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manubir Arora, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Coker, (District Attorney), Thomaston, Julia Slater, (District Attorney), Columbus, Marie Broder, (Spalding County District Attorney's Office), Griffin, Robert Smith, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0578

    Requiring Defendant to Show His Tattoos to Jury Was Harmless Error

  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Kenner, (Law Offices of Robert Kenner, Jr.), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Gore, (Assistant District Attorney), Jonesboro, Ryan Leonard, Sean Garrett, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0512

    Court affirms conviction for first degree vehicular homicide over defendant's multiple contentions of trial court error

  • Shaum v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robin Flores, (Robin Flores - Attorney), Chattanooga, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Franklin, (District Attorney), Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0228

    Court affirms defendant's convictions for attempt to commit child molestation and attempt to entice a child for indecent purposes

  • Newman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0409

    Trial Counsel Was Not Ineffective in Failing to Object to Prior Convictions From Years Ago Being Admitted Into Evidence at Trial for Impeachment Purposes

  • Dobbins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah Lorraine Leslie, (The Leslie Group, LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Mathew Eli Plott, (Office of The Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0402

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Failing to Give Curative Instruction When Prosecutor Referenced Defendant's 'Previous Trial' Before the Jury

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  • Glover v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jerome M. Rothschild, Jr., Abigail Beth Long, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0133

    Prosecutor's Closing Argument Comment Regarding Defendant's Decision Not to Exercise Right to Silence Was Not Improper

  • Scott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Noah Jared Abrams, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0125

    Physician's Letter and Representations of Counsel Were Sufficient to Establish Crime Victim Was Not Available to Testify at Trial

  • McMurray v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sabrina Nizamuddin, Daniel Porter, (District Attorney Gwinnett Justice & Administrative Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0744

    Evidence Did Not Support Conviction for Theft by Receiving Stolen Property; Search Warrant Affidavit Failed to Establish Probable Cause

  • Wright v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Bischoff, (Bischoff Law LLC), Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Ballard, (District Attorney), Griffin, Benjamin Coker, (District Attorney), Thomaston, Marie Broder, (Spalding County District Attorney's Office), Griffin, Brittany Fallin, (Upson County District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0740

    Trial Court Improperly Revoked Probation Based on Defendant's Possession of Meth Pipe; State Only Showed Spatial Proximity, Not Admissible Evidence

  • Sherrod v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Johnson, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel Altman, Kelly Weathers, (Middle Judicial Circuit - District Attorney), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0703

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Evidence of Prior Difficulties and Bad Character; Aggravated Assault, Reckless Conduct Convictions Affirmed