• Middleton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher Lee Lewis, Daniel J. Porter, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S20A0718

    Shooter Could Not Claim Self-Defense After Admitting He Was Attempting to Buy Marijuana From Victim

  • Hill v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh Stevens Schrope, Marcia Gail Shein, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Aslean Zachary Eaglin, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S20A0781

    Defendant Who Failed to Timely Raise a Challenge to Jury List Composition Waived the Right to Object

  • Finnissee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-09-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Strang, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradfield M. Shealy, Michelle Thomas Harrison, (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S20A0966

    Trial Counsel's Decision Not to Request Jury Instruction on Lesser Offense of Voluntary Manslaughter Was Strategically Sound

  • Calmer v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathanial Lane Studelska, Gabrielle Amber Pittman, Chelsea Henderson, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Atlatna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jonathan Lang Adams, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Jackson, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, Elizabeth Knight Presley, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Barnesville, Carolee Reed Jordan, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Forsyth,, for appellee.

    Case Number: S20A0441

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Failing to Charge Jury on Habitation Defense or on Lesser Offenses of Voluntary and Involuntary Manslaughter

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Kleinrock, (Law Office of Lynn M. Kleinrock), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Daniel Sanmiguel, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S20A0078

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contentions of error in jury instructions and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Stepp-McCommons v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S20A0254

    Evidence Supported Trial Court's Refusal to Instruct on Accident or Lesser Included Offenses

  • Ross v. Small

    Publication Date: 2020-07-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki Cuthbert, (Vicki Trammellcuthbert, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Divida Gude, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A20A0372

    Court affirms legitimation petition and child support award but vacates award for retroactive support and attorney fees, and remands for further proceedings

  • 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

  • Hicks v. Gabor et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-24
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Dalziel, (Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Lefkoff, (Lefkoff Law, LLC), Atlanta, Matthew Jones, John Padesky, (Busch, Reed, Jones & Leeper, P.C.), Marietta, Charles Murphy, (Vaughan & Murphy), Atlant, Matthew Steakley, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1648

    Court reverses dismissal of interpleader claimant from surety bond action but affirms dismissal of her counterclaim and other trial court orders

  • Tolbert v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    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, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A1579

    Trial Court Did Not Err by Denying Malice Murder Defendant's Post-Arrest Statements to Police or by Admitting 'Similar Transaction' Evidence