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  • Pope v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Patterson, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Whiteside, Joseph Morales, (Gwinnett County Solicitor-General’s Office), Lawrenceville, Lisamarie Bristol, (Office of the Public Defender Alcovy Judicial Circuit), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0532

    DUI Accusation Adequately Alleged "Actual" Physical Control of Moving Vehicle While Defendant Was Intoxicated

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elaine Thompson, Fani Willis, Juliana Sleeper, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0028

    Court affirms convictions for rape and child molestation over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Quint v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Adkins, (Attorney at Law), Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Whiteside, Joseph Morales, Alexander Grace, (Gwinnett County Solicitor-General’s Office), Lawrenceville, Lisamarie Bristol, (Office of the Public Defender Alcovy Judicial Circuit), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0024

    Court affirms DUI convictions and affirms ruling that trial court did not err when it admitted evidence of defendant's refusal to submit to a blood test

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Jones, (Leslie Spornberger Jones LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Smith, Gregory Wagner, (District Attorney), Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0598

    Guilty Plea Was Not Result of Undue Coercion Arising From Protective Custody/Isolation Prior to Entry of Plea

  • The State v. Carswell

    Publication Date: 2023-04-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Bibler, (Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Houston Judicial Circuit), Perry, Anita Howard, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office Office of the District Attorney Macon Judicial Circuit), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Erikka Williams, (Williams Law Group), Warner Robins, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0209

    State Could Not Appeal From Trial Court Order on Motion Filed Less Than 30 Days Before Scheduled Start of Trial

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  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Brent Cochran, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, (OcMulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0053

    Trial Court's Self-Defense Instruction Did Not Improperly Shift Burden of Proof on That Defense to Defendant

  • Nundra v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0043

    No Error in Allowing Prosecutor to Compare Defendant With Sociopaths and Serial Killers During Closing Argument

  • Meadows v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Titus Thomas Nichols, (Nichols Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0110

    Supreme Court Has No Statutory Authority to Act as "Thirteenth Juror" And Then Grant New Trial

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy Dodd Roth, Lydia Martell Schlitt, (Augusta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Bradley Smith, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee; Jill Anderson Travis, Mazie Lynn Guertin, Natalie Katherine Glaser, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Jason B. Sheffield, (Peters, Rubin, Sheffield & Hodges), Decatur, Kenneth Wayne Sheppard, Smyrna, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Drew F. Waldbeser, (Lehotsky Keller LLP), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22A0964

    Pro Se Filing Made by Defendant Actually or Presumptively Represented by Counsel Not Necessarily a Nullity

  • Burnett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Gough, (Attorney at Law), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Higgins, (District Attorney’s Office for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, Benjamin Gephardt, (District Attorney’s Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Kingsland, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1640

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated sodomy and child molestation over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claims of ineffective assistance