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  • Carson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Viveca Burns Famber, (Viveca R. Famber Powell, Attorney at Law), Austell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0288

    Severance Not Necessary For Charges That Were Not Joined Solely Because of Same or Similar Character

  • Barrow v. Raffensperger

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade H. Tomlinson, III, Charles W. Byrd, George "Buddy" Darden, Michael Jonathan Moore, Michael P Morrill, Elizabeth Studdard White, (Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood), Atlanta, S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Russell David Willard, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, Elizabeth Ann Penland, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Joyce Gist Lewis, Adam Martin Sparks, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Monica Joy Hanrahan, (Hanrahan Freitag Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20A1029

    Secretary of State Could Not be Compelled to Hold Election in May For Position of Supreme Court Justice Whose Prospective Resignation In November Was Irrevocable

  • The State v. Lane

    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1424

    Georgia Courts Considering Whether a Criminal Defendant Is Entitled to a New Trial Should Consider the Prejudicial Effect of Trial Court Errors and Deficient Counsel Performance

  • Morgan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Lynn Tyo, Brandon A. Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jennifer Leigh Parker, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1261

    Court affirms denial of new trial motion of defendant found guilty but mentally ill in the drowning death of her infant daughters.

  • Gebhardt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Scott Johnston, (Virgil L. Brown & Associates), Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, Brittany Ashton Fallin, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Griffin, Marc A. Mallon, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1582

    Evidence at Trial Was Sufficient to Support Conviction of Malice Murder in Connection with Torture and Stabbing That Took Place in 1983

  • Shaw v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Mitchell Harrison, (Oconee Circuit Public Defender Oconee Cirucit), Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta. Timothy Grady Vaughn, Keely Kight Pitts, (Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Eastman, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0789

    Defendant Waived Right to Counsel at Pre-Trial Hearing; Prior Violent Acts Against Witness Sufficiently Showed Course of Conduct

  • Holmes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-25
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., (Jones Appellate Law Practice), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0559

    Trial Court Failed to Exercise its Discretion to Act as the 'Thirteenth Juror' in Ruling Upon Defendant's Motion for a New Trial

  • Bannister v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce Steven Harvey, (Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0418

    Trial Court Did Not Abuse Discretion in Giving Allen Instruction After Early Indication Jury Was Deadlocked

  • The State v. Burns

    Publication Date: 2019-07-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shannon Glover Wallace, Cliff Head, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, Randall Joseph Ivey, (District Attorney Office for Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Thomas Poole, Michael Anthony Ray, (Grisham & Poole, P.C.), Canton, for appellee. Michael Scott Carlson, (Georgia Bureau of Investigation), Decatur, D. Victor Reynolds, John Stuart Melvin, Charles Prescott Boring, John Richard Edwards, Amelia Greeson Pray, Jaret Teague Usher, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant. James L. Ford, Sr., (James Lee Ford, P.C.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1354

    Court overrules its precedent and concludes that Evidence Rule 403 does not preclude admission of witness's prior false allegations in sexual misconduct case

  • White v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Santos Fleischman, Noah Howard Pines, (Ross & Pines, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0365

    Court Affirms Conviction of Sexual Predator Despite Erroneous Admission of Evidence of Alleged Victim's Sexual History in Contravention of Georgia's Rape Shield Law After Victim Testified That She Had Sexually Abused Others After Being Abused by Defendant