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Campbell v. The State

Publication Date: 2024-11-21
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Warren
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Lyle Burnham, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Gabriel Adam Justus, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
Case Number: S24A0578

Court affirms multiple gang-related murder convictions despite errors in admissible evidence, deeming the errors to be harmless in view of overwhelming evidence of the defendants' guilt

Goodwin v. The State

Publication Date: 2024-10-30
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie J. Cardin, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Saint Simons Island, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Faith Donnell Worley, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Keith Higgins, Nigel Robin Lush, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Brunswick Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
Case Number: S24A0518

Court affirms denial of motion to withdraw guilty plea where defendant could not demonstrate ineffective assistance of counsel

Goodwin v. The State

Publication Date: 2024-07-08
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hawkins, (The Hawkins Law Firm), Atlanta, Noah Pines, (Ross & Pines, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Carlton Hayes, David McElyea, (Cherokee County Solicitor-General’s Office), Canton, for appellee.
Case Number: A24A0006

Court affirms conviction for second-degree homicide by vessel, rejecting defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

Carole Maso et al. v. Brian Zeh et al.

Publication Date: 2023-12-11
Practice Area: Health Care Law | Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Pinson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Brian Terry, Jane D. Vincent, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Bentley Cash, David Najeeb Krugler, Wendy Goodwin Huray, Laura Lynne Voght, (Cash, Krugler & Fredericks, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Randolph Page Powell, Jr., Alexander Collins Vey, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, Laura M. Shamp, Joshua Forrest Silk, (Shamp Silk), Atlanta, Rosser Adams Malone, (Malone Law Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S23C0765

Physician Assistant Act Does Not Create Vicarious Liability for Supervising Physicians For Medical Acts of Their Physician Assistants

November 29, 2023 | Supreme Court Brief

Alito's Bad Coworkers and Kagan's Vote Of Confidence

In search of a hypothetical, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. speaks of "obnoxious" colleagues and Justice Elena Kagan says Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shortchanged herself.

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Allen v. The State

Publication Date: 2023-08-18
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Richard King, (SK Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth A. Baker, Constance Monique Harris, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
Case Number: S23A0436

Crime-Scene Video Did Not Support Defendant's Self-Defense Claim

May 22, 2023 | Daily Report Online

As Lawyers in Grand Jury Probe Allege Ethics Violations, Professors Weigh In on Issues

As part of her May 5 motion in opposition to Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis's and special prosecutor Nathan Wade's April 18 motion to disqualify Kimberly Debrow as the lawyer representing 10 of the fake electors, Debrow, who now no longer represents two of them, also filed a motion for sanctions against Wade.

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February 27, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Reversed on Appeal: Supervising Physicians Not Vicariously Liable for Physician Assistants' Conduct

"The language of the [Physician Assistant Act] does not expressly impose vicarious liability on supervising physicians for the negligent acts of their [physician assistants]," the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled. "The General Assembly knows how to impose liability by statute when it chooses to, and we will not read into the PAA language that the General Assembly did not include."

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In the Interest of N. P., a Child

Publication Date: 2022-05-13
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Phipps
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Evett, (Price Law Group), Canton, for appellant.
for defendant: Calandra Harps, Christopher Carr, Shalen Nelson, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Margaret Howard, (Pereira and Associates, LLC), Marietta, for appellee; Courtney Goodwin, (Attorney at Law), Canton for other party.
Case Number: A22A0583

Conducting Parental Termination Hearing By Video Conference Did Not Pose Undue Burden on Parent

Weaver v. The State

Publication Date: 2021-07-07
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Phipps
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacob Weaver, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
for defendant: Fani Willis, Paul Howard, (Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, Kevin Armstrong, (Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: A21A0383

Extraordinary Motion For New Trial Not Appropriate For Raising Issues That Could Have Been Addressed in Habeas Proceeding