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  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josh David Moore, Thea Adele Delage, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Atlanta, Brian Stull, (American Civil Liberties Union), Durham, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Sabrina Dawn Graham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee. Andrew John King, (Fisherbroyles, LLP), Atlanta, Laurence Shtasel, Taylor Lake, Heidi Crikelair, (Blank Rome LLP), Philidelphia, for Amicus Appellant. Vanessa J. Carroll, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21P0078

    Requiring Death Penalty Defendant to Prove Intellectual Disability Beyond Reasonable Doubt Not Unconstitutional

  • Rickman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Allan Fisher (Georgia Public Defender Council), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill (Department of Law), Atlanta; Leigh Ellen Patterson, Kayleigh Ann Carter (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0841

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting into evidence at defendant's murder trial photographs showing a re-creation of the crime scene with police officers posing at the shooter and the victim.

  • January 27, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Parents May Be Liable for Child's Activity on Facebook

    It's 10 p.m. Do you know what your children are posting online? If the answer is no, here is yet another reason to consider policing your children's online activity: As a pare

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  • January 26, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Parents May Be Liable for Child's Activity on Facebook

    It's 10 p.m. Do you know what your children are posting online?

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  • Pardon v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Trieshmann Public Defender's Office, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, District Attorney, and Charles Cox, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0010

    The trial court improperly sentenced the defendant as a recidivist, since the prior crimes for which he was charged and convicted could only be deemed as one conviction pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 17-10-

  • State v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Finnis K. Salmon, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher P. Twyman Cox, Byinton, Corwin, Niedrach, Smith & Twyman, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0824

    No evi supported a "no-knock" provision in a search warrant that was based on standard language involving the affiant's general knowledge of whether the defendant would destroy the drug evi