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  • Andrews v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sydney Rene Strickland (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, S. Taylor Johnston (Department of Law), Atlanta; Amelia Greeson Pray, D. Victor Reynolds, Michael Scott Carlson (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1728

    The trial court did not err in finding that defendant freely and voluntarily spoke to police and thus properly denied his motion to suppress his custodial statements in his murder trial for killing a cab driver.

  • White v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ivars Lacis (Lacis Law, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Jason Matthew Rea, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Benjamin David Coker, Brittany Ashton Fallin, Marie Greene Broder (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1588

    The trial court did not reversibly err in its jury instruction on reasonable doubt because, when viewing the charge as a whole, the jury instruction did not mislead the jury as to the standard of proof required by due process.

  • The State v. Herman

    Publication Date: 2018-02-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Black (Assistant District Attorney), Statesboro; Richard Mallard (District Attorney), Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Renata Newbill-Jallow (Public Defender Ogeechee Judicial Circuit), Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1978

    The trial court erred in granting defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a traffic stop because the open-air dog sniff did not unconstitutionally prolong the stop since an officer was still in the process of running a check of the driver's license, which is part of the mission of a traffic stop.

  • Hayes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marion Hayes (GA State Prison), Reidsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Morrison (Fulton County DA's Office), Atlanta; Paul Howard (District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A16A0588

    The Court of Appeals affirmed defendant's convictions and sentences on his Alford plea to burglary and other offenses as the trial court did not participate in plea negotiations in violation of Uniform Superior Court Rule 33.5 (A) and its colloquy with defendant, in which it advised him of the maximum sentence that he could face upon conviction, was permissible.

  • Zarouk v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-01-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cameil Reddick (Metro Conflict Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Howard (District Attorney), Atlanta; Kevin Armstrong (Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1922

    The trial court did not clearly err in denying defendant's motion for acquittal and discharge based on his demand for a speedy trial pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 17-7-170, because defendant failed to carry his burden to show that the demand for a speedy trial was pending for two terms of court during which there were juries impaneled and qualified to try his case.

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  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-01-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Overocker (Office of the Public Defender Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anne Allen (Assistant District Attorney Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton; Peter Skandalakis (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1941

    The record supported the trial court's finding that the prosecutors failure to redact a video recording of defendant's interview with an investigator, which led to a mistrial, was not made purposefully to subvert double jeopardy protections and the trial court, therefore, did not err in denying defendant's plea in bar/motion in autrefois convict in which he contended that the double jeopardy clause barred his further prosecution for child molestation.

  • Womac v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-01-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Robert McCarthy (Mike McCarthy, Criminal Defense Lawyer), Rocky Face, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr., Victoria Keely Parker, (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1385

    The Supreme Court affirmed defendant's convictions and sentences for aggravated sexual battery, child molestation, cruelty to children in the first degree and false imprisonment and found that his life sentence for aggravated sexual battery did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Georgia Constitution.

  • Henderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Donnelly (Western Circuit Public Defender's Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Chafin (Assistant District Attorney Western Judicial Circuit), Athens; Kenneth Mauldin (District Attorney), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1926

    The trial court failed to properly apply the applicable test when it granted State's motion to involuntarily medicate a mentally ill criminal defendant in an attempt to make him competent to stand trial.

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-11-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Rosenburg (Lister & Holt LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tasha Mosley (Solicitor General), Jonesboro; James Wilkinson (Cherokee Circuit District Attorney), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0733

    The trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence police discovered after they arrested him without probable cause, as defendant was free to leave a first-tier police encounter and his arrest for obstruction was thus unlawful.

  • The State v. Licata

    Publication Date: 2017-11-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Keller (Sr. Assistant Solicitor General), Cumming; William Finch (Solicitor General of Forsyth County), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Woodrow Smith (Attorney at Law), Atlanta; Matthew Winchester (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1200

    The trial court erred in granting DUI defendant's motion to suppress the results field sobriety tests and evidence of his refusal to take a breath test because he was sufficiently warned of his right not to incriminate himself before the field sobriety tests and he was not entitled to counsel when deciding whether to submit to the state-requested breath test.