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Beard v. The State

Publication Date: 2024-01-11
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, Jason Michael McLendon, (McLendon Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Lenny I. Krick, Drew Healy, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
Case Number: S23A0906

Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of jury instruction error and ineffective assistance of counsel

In the Matter of Carl Lawrence Collins.

Publication Date: 2023-12-15
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Carl Lawrence Collins, (Law Office of Carl Collins III), Southfield, for appellee; Michael J Blakely, Jr., (The Blakely Firm), Decatur, for other party.
Case Number: S23Y1064

Court accepts lawyer's petition for voluntary suspension of his law license pending his appeal of criminal convictions for filing false tax returns

In the Matter of W. McCall Calhoun, Jr.

Publication Date: 2023-12-15
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta,, for appellant.
for defendant: Donald Clarence Evans, Jr., (Evans & Rhodes, LLC), Cartersville, for appellee; LaRae Dixon Moore, (Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford PC), Columbus, for other party.
Case Number: S23Y1160

Court suspends attorney law license pending appeal of his felony and misdemeanor convictions related to his participation in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

In the Matter of Cory Howerton Fleming.

Publication Date: 2023-12-14
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Pendarvis, (Pendarvis Law Offices PC), Beaufort, for appellant.
for defendant: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S23Y0970

Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of his law license in a disciplinary matter relating to representation of a client in a wrongful death action against Alexander Murdaugh

In the Matter of Tamorra A. Boyd.

Publication Date: 2023-12-12
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Ecleynne Mercy, (The Foster Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.; LaVonda Rochelle DeWitt, Atlanta, for Other Party
Case Number: S22Y0940

ourt accepts attorney's petition for public reprimand in response to disciplinary matter over her violations of Practice Rules 1.4, 1.5(b), and 7.1

In the Matter of Walter Douglas Adams.

Publication Date: 2023-12-08
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Walter Douglas Adams, (Attorney at Law), Brunswick, for appellee; Jack J. Helms, Jr., (The Helms Law Firm, P.C.), Homerville, for other party.
Case Number: S23Y0437

Attorney's Rules Violation in Connection With Fee Dispute Warranted One-Year Suspension

Cooper v. The State

Publication Date: 2023-12-05
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
Industry:
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice McMillian
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Donnelly, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
Case Number: S23A0846

Trial Counsel Did Not Render Constitutionally Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Object to Multiple Portions of Lead Detective Testimony

In the Matter of Marsha Williams Mignott.

Publication Date: 2023-11-21
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Marsha Williams Mignott, (The Mignott Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for appellee; Joshua Clark Bell, (Joshua C. Bell, LLC), Whigham, Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Chong J Kim, Atlanta, for other party.
Case Number: S23Y0974

Court dismisses disciplinary action against attorney who used and disclosed information from a prospective client because no attorney-client relationship had existed such that the use was improper

Tracy Garner et al. v. Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. et al.

Publication Date: 2023-11-20
Practice Area: Wrongful Death
Industry: Health Care
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Pipkin
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Matthew Sellers, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, Matthew Cathey, (Cathey & Strain. LLC), Cornelia, Brian Blankenship, Las Vegas, Joshua K Conaway, Albuquerque, for appellant.
for defendant: Daniel Huff, Randolph Powell, Eric Wilder, Alexander Vey, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, Y. Williams, Anna Idelevich, Michael Weathington, (Weinberg Wheller Hudgins Gunn & Dial), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: A23A1090

Court upholds dismissal of wrongful death claim due to lack of standing over a question of whether the plaintiffs were able to allege that an individual had died

November 14, 2023 | Daily Report Online

DeKalb Judge Honored for Pandemic Response Efforts Shares What the State Court Council Learned During Lockdown

The main goal was to keep the judiciary running.

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