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  • Spears v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Charles Jones, Burke Doherty, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1399

    Criminal Appellant's Initial Notice of Appeal Ripened Upon Entry of Amended Judgment of Conviction

  • The State v. Arroyo

    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine L. Thompson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Steven Eric Phillips, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0593

    State Could Not Appeal Trial Court's Grant of Motion to Suppress Issued After Jury Was Impaneled

  • Gay v. Jackson, Judge et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda K Johns, Tokunbo Henry Adeleye, (City of Atlanta Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Raines Felton Carter, (Office of the City Solicitor), Atlanta, Gary E. Jackson, (Atlanta Municipal Court), Atlanta, Hermise Pierre, Michael Christopher Wynter, (City of Atlanta Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1204

    Court affirms dismissal of defendant's pretrial habeus petition because defendant had other remedies available that superseded habeus relief

  • Torres-Toledo v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Reba, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, (District Attorney, NEJC of GA), Gainesville, Patrick Shuler, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1544

    Appellant Waived Breach of Plea Agreement Claim By Failing to Address Trial Court's Stated Reason For Denying His Motion

  • In the Interest of E. R., a Child

    Publication Date: 2023-01-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Skye Musson, (Musson Law Offices LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Jones, Alison Slagowitz, (Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Aaron Wiles, (Chatham County District Attorney), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1173

    Court affirms trial court's adjudication and disposition of a juvenile custody ruling because defendant failed to raise issues that were the subject of his appeal at trial

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  • Harvey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Harvey, Alto, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth A. Baker, Daniel A. Hiatt, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1083

    Court affirms dismissal of a motion to withdraw guilty pleas and vacates denial of two other motions with instructions on remand to dismiss rather than deny those motions

  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Aaron Loudon-Brown, Whitney Knox Lee, (Southern Center For Human Rights), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher Mark DeNeve, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, Brenda Lopez Romero, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1051

    Court vacates denial of extraordinary motion for a new trial on a murder charge and remands for a hearing on the defendant's new trial motion.

  • Esposito v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcia Adele Widder, Akiva Hibel Freidlin, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Sabrina Dawn Graham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, Allison Thatcher Mauldin, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Greensboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0104

    Trial Courts Are Bound to Follow Precedents of Court of Appeals

  • Robert Kyle Dougherty v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Doug Patrick Smith, (Towaliga Circuit Public Defender), Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jonathan Lang Adams, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, Dorothy Vinson Hull, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0643

    Under Recent Georgia Supreme Court Authority, Motion For Out-Of-Time Appeal Had to be Dismissed

  • Drennon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Virginia Lee Davis, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0511

    Trial Court Record Not Adequate For Review of Appellant's Claim of Denial of Right to Be Present During All of Trial