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  • Scott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Pilgrim, (The Pilgrim Law Group, LLC), Villa Rica, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Ciccarelli, (Office of the District Attorney, Stone Mountain Circuit Office of the District Attrorney, Stone Mountan Judicial Circuit), Decatur, Sherry Boston, Heather Waters, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0989

    Defendant Failed to Show Prosecution Intentionally Goaded Him Into Moving for Mistrial

  • Gardei v. Conway et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mimi Duong, (The Law Offices of Mark Allen Yurachek & Associate), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tuwanda Williams, Murray Weed, (Gwinnett County Department of Law), Lawrenceville, Andrew Pinson, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Patrician Burton, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Christopher Carr, Tina Piper, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Rebecca Dobras, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0818

    Cause of action for declaratory and injunctive relief against enforcement of the Georgia Sex Offender Act is not time-barred when action has not yet accrued

  • The State v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2022-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, Nam Nguyen, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stuart Mones, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0731

    Court vacates trial court's exclusion of other acts evidence and remands for proper application of Rule 403 balancing test and analysis of other potential uses of evidence

  • Johnson v. Lindsay Pope Brayfield & Associates, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-03
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gene Massafra, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Thomas, Jaletta Smith, (Andersen Tate & Carr, P.C.), Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0189

    Court affirms summary judgment for employer in a discrimination and wrongful discharge case brought by disabled employee whose accommodation request was denied

  • Glasper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Morris, (Public Defender Office), Gainesville, Christopher van Rossem, (Northeastern Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Akins, (Assistant District Attorney), Gainesville, Lee Darragh, (District Attorney, NEJC of GA Northeastern Judicial Circuit), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0505

    Court reverses revocation of defendant's probation because it had been based on wrongly-admitted evidence that violated the best evidence rule

  • King v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jana Dixon, (Lister Holt & Dennis LLC), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Pamela Bettis, Katie Payne, (Office of the Solicitor-General of Henry County Henry County Judicial Center), Mcdonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0263

    Court affirms conviction for driving under the influence based largely on a trooper's observations of defendant's driving and conditions

  • Parrish et al. v. St. Joseph'S/Candler Health System, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah Adle, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Brookhaven, Stephen Lowry, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Dekle, B. Smith, (Brennan, Wasden & Painter, LLP), Savannah, Daniel Huff, Randolph Powell, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Wilkes, Irving Drought, (Oliver Maner LLP), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0484

    Motion to Vacate Consent Order Founded on Prior Attorney's Legal Mistake Properly Denied

  • The State v. Mathews

    Publication Date: 2022-06-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Racine, Aimee Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dorian Murry, (The Murry Law Group), Stone Mountain, Leigh Webster, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0460

    Court vacates motion to suppress evidence collected at a traffic stop and remands for findings of officer's experience in detecting drugs

  • Nichols v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Sheppard, (Attorney at Law), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Candace Slezak, (Assistant District Attorney), Winder, James Smith, (District Attorney), Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0667

    Trial Court's Decision to Handcuff Defendant During Trial Was Supported by Case-Specific Findings

  • RCC Wesley Chapel Crossing, LLC et al. v. Allen et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-17
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A20A0547

    Court vacates and remands a class action case that addressed a private property owner's right to immobilize vehicles improperly parked on the owner's property