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  • Arrington v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sydney Strickland, (Strickland & Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joyette Holmes, Amelia Pray, D. Reynolds, John Melvin, (District Attorney's Office, Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0829

    Court reverses denial of armed robbery defendant's motion for a new trial due to trial court error in admitting other acts evidence

  • Westbrook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Smith, (The Smith Group, Attorneys at Law), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Seterria Brodnex, Gregory Edwards, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0579

    Court affirms defendant's armed robbery and other convictions over his challenge to trial court's admission of evidence of his guilty plea to a prior armed robbery

  • Lopez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Huffman, (The Huffman Law Firm), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret Heap, Katie Fite-Magyar, (Chatham County District Attorney's Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0425

    Court affirms family violence battery convictions over defendant's evidentiary challenges but remands for resentencing due to trial court merger error

  • The State v. Cartee et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Langley, (District Attorney), Blairsville, Samantha Barrett, (Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cleveland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Catherine Bernard, (Attorney at Law), Dublin, Jeffrey Wolff, (Attorney at Law), Dahlonega, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0439

    Court affirms order suppressing marijuana-growing evidence seized during a search because the search warrant was not supported by probable cause

  • Thompson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lon Powell Kemeness, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0245

    Trial Court Did Not Err by Allowing Admission of Testimony Regarding Other Alleged Acts of Violence Committed by Defendant Against Family Members

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  • Newton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Neil Alan Halvorson, Dorothy Vinson Hull, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0259

    Trial Court Did Not Err When it Denied Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence of Out-of-Court IDs Made by Witnesses Using a Photographic Lineup

  • Stinchcomb v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh Stevens Schrope, Marcia Gail Shein, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Smyrna, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0355

    Trial Court Erred by Denying Appellant's Extraordinary Motion for a New Trial Without an Evidentiary Hearing

  • Shealey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Glenn Patterson, (Patterson Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John H. Cranford, Jr., John Clinton Winne, (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0185

    Trial Court Did Not Abuse its Discretion by Excluding From Evidence Statements That Co-Indictee Made During His Guilty Plea Hearing

  • Lyons v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Darius T. Pattillo, Sharon Lee Hopkins, James Luther Wright, (Flint Circuit District Attorneys Office), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0536

    Allowing Jurors to Review Written and Recorded Statements in Courtroom Did Not Violate Continuing Witness Rule

  • Rouzan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Veronica M. O'Grady, Brandon A. Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0414

    Trial Court Erred in Applying Obsolete Legal Standard to Allow Prosecution to Introduce Other-Acts Evidence