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  • Harper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin David Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0810

    Court affirms felony murder convictions over defendant's claims of due process violations, and contentions of error regarding references to his statements and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Gates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Foster Kramer, (Kramer & Pine), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stuart H. Hunter Patray, Daphne Jarriel Totten, Keith A. McIntyre, (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1158

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of his medical records that were seized pursuant to an ex parte court order, stating that the seizure was a privacy violation

  • The State v. Cook

    Publication Date: 2023-11-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., Richard Benjamin Caplan, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathon Justin Majeske, (The Issa Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0702

    Jailers Accused of Murdering Prisoner Were Not Entitled to Pre-Indictment Protections Afforded to "Peace Officers" under OCGA §17-7-52

  • Huff v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    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, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Melinda April Wynne, Gregory W. Edwards, (Dougherty County District Attorney’s Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1266

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over challenges to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of error, jury bias, and ineffective assistance

  • Sillah v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Tax
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, Tristan Wade Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0939

    No Affirmative Evidence was Offered to Show Sentencing Court Misapplied Law In Imposing LWOP Sentence on Juvenile Offender

  • McElrath v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman Maddox Kilgore, Carlos Javier Rodriguez, (Kilgore & Rodriguez, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Stephanie Adrean Green, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0605

    State May Seek Retrial of Defendant On Count For Which Jury Returned Repugnant Verdict

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans et al. v. Henry County Board of Commissioners

    Publication Date: 2022-11-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Kyle King, (Hodges, McEachern & King), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Joseph Buckley, III, Taylor Wayne Hensel, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, Patrick DeBorde Jaugstetter, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee; Walker L. Chandler, (Attorney at Law), Peachtree City, Mawuli M. Malcolm Davis, (The Davis Bozeman Law Firm), Decatur, for Other Party; Les A. Schneider, Thomas Leland Walker, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, Martin Kenneth OToole, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Justin Tharpe Holcombe, (Skaar & Feagle, LLP), Woodstock, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22G0039

    Court concludes that an individual has stand to sue for injunctive relief to prevent removal of monuments, but community groups do not.

  • Reed v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    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, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Aslean Zachary Eaglin, Juliana Sleeper, Karen S. Bemis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0530

    Defendant Failed to Show Prejudice Resulting From His Absence From Numerous Bench Conferences During Tria

  • Payne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-08-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Devin Austin Rafus, Manubir Singh Arora, (The Aurora Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Juliana Sleeper, Karen S. Bemis Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0469

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's challenges to jury instructions and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel.

  • Gardei v. Conway et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-18
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Monroe Mitchell, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Tuwanda Rush Williams, Murray Joseph Weed, (Gwinnett County Department of Law), Lawrenceville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Elizabeth McRary Crowder, Tina Michelle Piper, Christopher M. Carr, Andrew Alan Pinson Drew F. Waldbeser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0430

    Causes of Action in Petition Seeking Determination as to Sex Offender's Future Registration Requirements Had Not Yet Accrued