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  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Kwashnak, (Public Defender's Office), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Plez Higdon Hardin, Lewis Ramon Lamb, (Southwestern Circuit District Attorney), Americus, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1266

    Court affirms aggravated assault and felony murder convictions but vacates aggravated assault sentence that should have merged.

  • Rich v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Earl White, Warner Robbins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1492

    Evidence Proved Kidnapping Offense; Defendant's Forced Movement Was Not 'Merely Incidental' to His Commission of Armed Robbery

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Dustin Jeremiah Lee, (Fulton County Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1570

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Sustain Convictions for Malice Murder and Possession of a Firearm

  • Mosley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Joseph Huffman, Jr., (The Huffman Law Firm, LLC), 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, Christine Sieger Barker, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1301

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to evidence, trial court error, and effectiveness of counsel

  • Morgan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Lynn Tyo, Brandon A. Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jennifer Leigh Parker, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1261

    Court affirms denial of new trial motion of defendant found guilty but mentally ill in the drowning death of her infant daughters.

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  • Parker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Florio, (Thomas M. Florio, P.C.), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Fowler, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, Tasha Mosley, Charles Brooks, (Harold R. Banke Justice Center), Jonesboro, Tracy Lawson, (District Attorney), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2312

    Court affirms aggravated assault and robbery convictions over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence, and contentions of trial court error

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Betsey L. Tate, (Office of the Appellate Defender, Georgia Public Defender Council), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1432

    Evidence Regarding Investigator's Course of Conduct During Crime Investigation Was Not Admissible to Show Guilt

  • Driver v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Chappell, II, Roswell, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Leigh Ellen Patterson, Luke Anthony Martin, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1298

    Court Properly Admitted Into Evidence an Admission Defendant Made to Police While in Custody; Defendant Voluntarily Waived His Right to Counsel

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy Lee Copeland, (Rouse & Copeland, LLC), Savannah, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Thomas Durden, Jr., Alexis Marie Antonucci, Sandra Dutton, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1187

    Court affirms murder conviction over evidentiary and due process challenges

  • Flowers v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Earl White, Warner Robbins, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Jason Michael Martin, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1151

    Court affirms murder and assault convictions over defendant's evidentiary challenge to admission of prior acts evidence and autopsy photograph.