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  • Drennon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Virginia Lee Davis, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0511

    Trial Court Record Not Adequate For Review of Appellant's Claim of Denial of Right to Be Present During All of Trial

  • In the Matter of Franklin David McCrea.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-31
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin David McCrea, (Law Office of David McCrea), Alma, for appellee; Jack J. Helms, Jr., (The Helms Law Firm, P.C.), Homerville, for other party.
    Case Number: S22Y1157

    Disbarment Appropriate Sanction For Attorney Who Abandoned Client and Failed to Participate in Disciplinary Proceedings

  • In the Matter of Trent Lee Coggins.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-31
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard F. Waddington, Douglas Vincent Chandler (Chandler Law LLC), Alpharetta, for appellee; Jack J. Helms, Jr., (The Helms Law Firm, P.C.), Homerville, for other party.
    Case Number: S22Y1159

    Six-Month Nunc Pro Tunc Suspension Appropriate Discipline For Trust Account Violations By Attorney Who Had Ceased Practice

  • In the Matter of Edward Hine, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-31
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Hine, Jr., Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0100

    Voluntary Surrender License Was Appropriate Discipline Following Attorney's Wrongful Withdrawal of Trust and Estate Funds

  • In the Matter of Karen Lynn Pass.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-28
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kathryn S. Whitlock, (Wood Smith Henning & Berman, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Patrick H. Head, Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: S22Y1156

    Attorney's Failure to Provide Proper Oversight of Employee Who Had Access to Trust Account Warranted Public Reprimand

  • Watts v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Wesley Bryant, (Federal Defender Program Inc), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0754

    Police Interrogators Did Not Induce Statement By Impliedly Promising Confession Would Remove Threat of Death Penalty

  • In the Matter of Joseph Arrington II.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-12
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Arrington, II, Atlanta, for appellee; Thomas E. Cauthorn, III, (Cauthorn Nohr & Owen), Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: S22Y1106

    Disbarment Warranted Based on Trust Account Violations and Failure to Participate in Disciplinary Process

  • Lewis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, III, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Richard Benjamin Caplan, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0757

    No Showing Made That Photo Lineup Was Unduly Suggestive or That Witness Was Under Influence of Drugs

  • In the Matter of Andrew Matteson

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Charles Matteson, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22Y1093

    Attorney Failed to Assure Court He Would Not Commit Similar Rules Violations After Completion of Proposed Suspension

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (Davis Hewitt Law Firm), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Buffy Dionne Thomas, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0771

    Custodial Statements to Police Were Not Induced by Fear of Injury or Hope of Benefit Reprimand Appropriate Sanction