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  • In the Matter of Matthew A. Bryan.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    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, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Alexander Bryan, (The Penland Law Firm), Ringgold, for Appellee; Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Anthony B. Askew, (Chair, Review Panel), Atlanta, Bridget B. Bagley, Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21Y1070

    Disbarment Appropriate Sanction For Georgia Attorney Who Was Disbarred in Another State For Serious Rules Violations

  • Townsend v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Joseph Smith, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr., (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0997

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Seek Jury Instruction on Lesser Included Homicide Offense

  • In the Matter of David J. Farnham.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-30
    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, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Marietta, for Appellee; Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Anthony B. Askew, (Chair, Review Panel), Atlanta, LaVonda Rochelle DeWitt, Atlanta, Other Party.
    Case Number: S21Y0597

    Remand to Special Master Necessary For Hearing on State Bar's Motion to Strike Attorney's Pleadings as Discovery Sanction

  • Montanez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Eric Phillips, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0246

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Sustain Conviction as to Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon; Evidence Independent of Alleged Accomplice's Testimony Provided Slight Corroboration of Alleged Accomplice's Account

  • In the Matter of Joseph Roger Davis.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-20
    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, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Roger Davis, (Robert O. House PC), Macon, Joseph Roger Davis, Sr., Macon, for appellee; Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Daniel S. Reinhardt, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S20Y0752

    Court affirms sanction of disbarment against an attorney with a prior disciplinary record who had abandoned and failed to respond to a client

  • Wilson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, Veronica M. O'Grady, (Clayton County Public Defender), Morrow, Christina Rupp Cribbs, (Georgia Innocence Project), Atlanta, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Allen Arnt, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, Megan Camille Gaither, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Ringgold, for Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G1295

    Court affirms convictions for child molestation and other crimes over defendant's claims that prior act evidence was inadmissible

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Paul Sharp, (Sharp Georgia Law Firm), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Alexander Fitzner, Jessica Black Wilson, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Lyons, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0035

    Victim's Diary Entries Admissible at Murder Trial Under Residual Exception to Hearsay Rule

  • Waller v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, William Donald Kelly, Jr., (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0276

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and vacates armed robbery conviction due to merger error.

  • Dukes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Lynn Tyo, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Atlanta for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0399

    Sentences on Two Separate Firearm-Possession Counts Should Have Merged

  • Redding v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, Ashutosh S. Joshi, (Joshi Law Firm, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Darius T. Pattillo, Sharon Lee Hopkins, (Flint Circuit District Attorney's Office), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0331

    Evidence Did Not Support Shooter's Self-Defense Claim