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  • June 28, 2013 |

    Goodwin Procter closes its San Diego office

    Law firm Goodwin Procter announced it will be shutting down its San Diego office at the end of its fiscal year.

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  • Riles v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-06-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Morris Public Defender's Office, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel Altman, District Attorney, and Mary McKinnon, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0080

    The defendant failed to prove that his trial counsel was deficient for failing to present character witnesses on his behalf, since he did not present testimony of any uncalled witnesses at the heari

  • Hatfield v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-06-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryann Blend, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter, District Attorney, and Teresa Klein District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0490

    The defendant failed to show that the outcome of his trial would have been different absent his trial counsel's deficiency in failing to investigate whether the defendant was suffering from a delusi

  • Benjamin v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-05-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Jones Jones Appellate Law Practice PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca Wright, District Attorney, and Madonna Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0770

    The defendant did not show that his counsel was deficient in failing to call the defendant's mother as an alibi wi

  • May 16, 2013 | The Recorder

    DCM's Matthew Bonner

    Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road may not look like much. The roughly three-mile stretch near Stanford University houses a series of similar-looking office parks. But inside those bland buildin

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  • May 8, 2013 |

    Circuit Rejects Challenge to “Retained Asset Account” as Default Method for Paying Life Insurance Beneficiary

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has rejected a challenge by the beneficiary of a life insurance policy to the insurer’s use of…

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  • Goodwin v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard Milam, District Attorney, and James Moss, Assistant District Attorney, Jackson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2100

    The $14,350 forfeiture to the State was reversed, since the hearing on the State's comp was untimely scheduled 63 days after the defendant was served with the comp

  • Irving v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Alexander, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Head, D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorneys, and Amelia Pray District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2327

    The defendant's 40-year sentence on her convictions arising from the beating of her 3-year-old daughter fell within the statutory range for each offense and was not disproporti

  • March 21, 2013 | The Recorder

    Scott Wornow

    San Jose-based Atmel Corp. designs, creates and sells microcontrollers — chips that drive all sorts of electronics internally and by touch — and memory devices. It also manufactures

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  • Goodwin v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker Chandler Public Defender's Office, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Ballard, District Attorney, and Robert Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1762

    The child molestation defendant failed to support his claim that certain evidence was admissible under the necessity exception to the hearsay rule based on the inaccessibility of the detective who c