• Hall v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Morrison, Daniel Porter, (District Attorney, Gwinnett Justice & Administrative Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1444

    Court affirms methamphetamine trafficking conviction over defendant's objection to evidence seized from his vehicle

  • Cordova v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beau Worthington, (Coxen & Worthington LLC), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alisha Johnson, Alicia Gant, (Rockdale County District Attorney's Office), Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1152

    Statements to Police Are Not Rendered Inadmissible Merely Because the Perpetrator Was Intoxicated at the Time

  • McCammon v. State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-25
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Faith Arndt, (Newton County Public Defender's Office), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, Amber Rae Bennett, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0490

    Testimony of Accomplice to Murder Was Adequately Corroborated by Independent Evidence

  • Holmes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-25
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., (Jones Appellate Law Practice), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, 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: S19A0559

    Trial Court Failed to Exercise its Discretion to Act as the 'Thirteenth Juror' in Ruling Upon Defendant's Motion for a New Trial

  • The State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2019-09-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carrie Coleman, Thomas Buscemi, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Higgins, (Keith Higgins, P.C.), Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1478

    Court vacates order that excluded prior acts evidence in family violence matter and remands case for reconsideration

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  • Mack v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0947

    Admission of Police Interviewer's Comment That Embraced Ultimate Issue at Trial Was Neither Prejudicial Nor Statutorily Barred

  • Worthen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council, Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, Courtney McGowan Patterson, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, Scott Orion Teague, (Douglas County District Attorney Office), Douglasville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0924

    Evidence as to Defendant's Gang Membership Was Probative as to His Motive to Encourage Another Person to Shoot Victim

  • Glenn v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Harry Steven Ruth, (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0683

    Trial Court Properly Permitted Lay Witnesses to Identify Defendant in Motel Surveillance Video

  • Lewis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald G. Shedd, (Office of the Public Defender), Rome, Atlanta.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0765

    Defendant Failed to Show That Long-Missing Rape Kit Had Ever Been Opened or Tampered With

  • Gude v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren Beth Shubow, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0611

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's challenges to evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel.