• Rice v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Claude Kicklighter, (Claude M. Kicklighter, Jr., PC), Springfield, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Black, Keith McIntyre, Daphne Totten, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Statesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1185

    Court affirmed denial of a motion to dismiss a pair of indictments on drug-related charges but remands for the State to elect which indictment to proceed under

  • Brown et al. v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2022-10-21
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Bost, (Greenfield, Bost & Kliros, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent Herrin, Gus Small, Benjamin Klehr, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0972

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of a trustee in a debt-collection action where appellants sought to raise a question of fact on waiver of collection efforts

  • Harvard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mickey Waller, (Mickey E. Waller, PC), Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: Catherine Smith, (Assistant District Attorney), Thomasville, Bradfield Shealy, (District Attorney Southern Judicial Circuit), Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1142

    Defendant Failed to Show Prejudice From Trial Counsel's Failure to Call Expert Witness to Challenge Forensic Interviews of Victims

  • White v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Sheppard, (Attorney at Law), Smyrna, Lela Acker, (Georgia Public Defender Council, Appellate Division), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Mulholland, Moruf Oseni, (Office of the District Attorney, South Georgia Circuit), Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0671

    Court affirms conviction for rape over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • In the Interest of N. P., a Child

    Publication Date: 2022-05-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Evett, (Price Law Group), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Calandra Harps, Christopher Carr, Shalen Nelson, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Margaret Howard, (Pereira and Associates, LLC), Marietta, for appellee; Courtney Goodwin, (Attorney at Law), Canton for other party.

    Case Number: A22A0583

    Conducting Parental Termination Hearing By Video Conference Did Not Pose Undue Burden on Parent

  • Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. et al. v. Metcalf et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-21
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bailey, Randolph Powell, Lindsey Costakos, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Lewis, (Lewis & Murphy, LLP), Winder, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0149

    Court vacates $3 million jury verdict in a wrongful death medical malpractice action because plaintiffs did not have standing to bring a wrongful death action

  • Connell et al. v. Hamon, As Surviving Child of James Isaac Dickens, Jr., Deceased

    Publication Date: 2021-11-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alphonso Howell, Gregory Talley, (Coleman Talley LLP), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Howell, (Attorney at Law), Moultrie, Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0925

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion on the pleadings in a wrongful death case where plaintiff had no standing to bring a wrongful death claim

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  • Weaver v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacob Weaver, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Paul Howard, (Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, Kevin Armstrong, (Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0383

    Extraordinary Motion For New Trial Not Appropriate For Raising Issues That Could Have Been Addressed in Habeas Proceeding

  • In Re Estate of McLendon

    Publication Date: 2021-04-23
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Tiku, (Tiku & Associates PC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Neville, (Neville & Cunat, LLP), Cumming, for appellee. Harold McLendon, Temple, Carrie Trotter, (Attorney at Law), Cartersville, for other party.

    Case Number: A21A0325

    Court Upholds Probate Court's Conclusion That Testimony of Witnesses to the Will Did Not Overcome Presumption of Validity