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Publication Date: 2019-01-04
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin H. Eaves, Waycross, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Elemuel Barnhill, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Waycross, for appellee
Case Number: S18A1157
Court Affirms Conviction of Murderer Who Killed His Ex-wife and Burned Her Body to Cover Up His Crime but Later Claimed Accident and Self-Defense
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Nahmias
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Damarius Thompson, Helena, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Aimee F. Sobhani (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Burke Olivia Doherty (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S18A0497
Prior Inconsistent Statements Properly Admitted to Impeach Testimony of Reluctant Prosecution Witness
June 28, 2018 | Daily Report Online
Rising star Britt Grant, on track to become the newest member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, has been added to Trump's list of possible U.S. Supreme Court candidates. The list includes Grant mentor Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington and her fellow Georgia Supreme Court Justice, Keith Blackwell.
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May 3, 2018 | Pro Mid Market
While there has been lots of lateral movement in markets like Philly for more than 20 years, it's always been little quieter, a little more polite, in Pittsburgh. But that seems to be changing.
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April 10, 2018 | Daily Report Online
Grant has served on the state high court for one year and three months. Gov. Nathan Deal appointed her to fill one of two expansion positions. She has written opinions for some of the most-watched cases.
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Publication Date: 2018-04-06
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
Industry:
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Grant
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Winchester (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Aimee F. Sobhani, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Rosemary M. Greene, Sharon Moyer Fox, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Marian York (Cherokee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Calhoun, for appellee.
Case Number: S17A1549
The evidence sufficiently supported a brother and sister's convictions for killing the sister's boyfriend and leaving his body in the back of his abandoned truck and although the trial court erred in allowing the alternate jurors to retire with the other jurors during deliberations, defendants failed to show that the error harmed them.
Publication Date: 2018-03-15
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, Christopher Ryan Lee (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Michael Scott Carlson, John Stuart Melvin, D. Victor Reynolds, John Richard Edwards (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
Case Number: S17A1646
The evidence supported defendants' convictions for malice murder and other crimes in connection with a planned robbery that turned fatal and the trial court properly admitted a former police informant's testimony about statements one of the defendants made to him while they were in jail together, as the former informant was not acting as a government agent at that time.
March 14, 2018 | Daily Report Online
A defense lawyer for Georgia death row inmate Carlton Gary argues his innocence. Attorney General Chris Carr summarizes the case.
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Publication Date: 2018-03-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Boggs
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Morrison, Pelham, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Tracy K. Chapman, Bradfield M. Shealy, Michelle Thomas Harrison (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Valdosta.
Case Number: S17A1750
The evidence supported defendant's malice murder conviction in connection with the death of his girlfriend and defendant failed to prove his several prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
Publication Date: 2018-03-08
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Benham
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric J Taylor (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard, Jr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Marc A. Mallon (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S17A1578
The jury was authorized to find that the evidence, although circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of guilt in defendant's trial for malice murder and concealing the death of another in connection with the death of her ex-girlfriend.
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