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  • Herrera v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2021-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Alley
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    Case Number: 08-19-00281-CR

    Appellant was convicted of three felonies: engaging in organized crime activity murder, tempering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse, and tempering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair as to a carpet.

  • Holliday v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2021-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wise
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    Case Number: 14-20-00737-CR

    Appellant challenged the trial court's orders denying his application for writs of habeas corpus for reduction of bail in charges against him for continuous assault and murder of a family member, his wife.

  • Porter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-03-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Starosto, (Star Law PC), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosemary Greene, (District Attorney), Calhoun, Sharon Fox, (Gordon County District Attorney's Office), Calhoun, Jana Allen, (The McCoy Law Firm, LLC), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1889

    Trial Court's Failure to Advise Defendant of Dangers of Proceeding Pre Se Required Reversal of Trial Result

  • Sullivan v. Microsoft Corporation

    Publication Date: 2021-03-15
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes | Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Alley
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    Case Number: 08-20-00046-CV

    Appellant challenged an order granting Microsoft's motion to dismiss based on a forum-selection clause contained within an employment agreement signed by both parties.

  • Perkins v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2021-03-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Alley
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    Case Number: 08-19-00068-CR

    Appellant struck Santiago Saenz with a golf club and Saenz died days later; a jury convicted appellant of aggravated assault and sentenced him to 22 years' imprisonment.

  • Barron v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2021-03-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Trotter
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    Case Number: 11-18-00324-CR

    Appellant was indicted for the murders of Hoover and Bruns.

  • Seidule v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2021-03-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Jewell
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    Case Number: 14-20-00010-CR

    A grand jury indicted appellant for the murder of Lewis Watson.

  • Cleveland v. Team RTR2, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-03-05
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Stoddard, Keith Evra, (The Stoddard Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Forestner, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Brynda Insley, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Walter Yarbrough, (Fain, Major & Brennan, PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A2080

    Sexual Assault of a Spa Customer by a Massage Therapist Was Reasonably Foreseeable; Spa Had Superior Knowledge of the Risk of Harm

  • Terry v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-03-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Chappell, (Solo Practicioner), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifford Bowden, Jennifer Hart, (Assistant District Attorney), Tifton, Bryce Johnson, (Solicitor General), Sylvester, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1627

    Court reverses conviction for Controlled Substance Act violation because trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence seized in a traffic stop

  • Presley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-02-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, Kayci Timmons, (Miller & Key, P.A.), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rocky Bridges, (Assistant District Attorney), Woodbine, Charles Higgins, (Keith Higgins, P.C.), Brunswick, Jacquelyn Johnson, (District Attorney), Brunswick, Thomas Buscemi, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1928

    Jury's Not-Guilty Verdicts on Manslaughter Counts Did Not Mandate Reversal on Charge of Police Officer's Violation of Oath