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  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Tarleton Law, LLC), Atlanta, David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, Frederick Lewis, Alonza Whitaker, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0069

    Court reverses murder convictions because trial court erred in removing and replacing a juror who was unable to agree to a guilty verdict

  • In the Matter of Edward Hine, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Hine, Jr., Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22Y0206

    Additional Facts Not Mentioned in Attorney's Petition for Voluntary Discipline Warranted Its Rejection

  • Mobley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Scott Carter, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Monroe, Leslie Spornberger Jones, (Leslie Spornberger Jones, LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, David Christopher Williamson, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0550

    Request For Voluntary Manslaughter Instruction Properly Denied in Absence of Provocation Likely to Have Generated Passion to Kill

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Western Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0092

    Defendant Was Prejudiced by Admission of Evidence That Was Needlessly Cumulative and Highly Prejudicial

  • Mishchanchu v. Motor Veh. Acc. Indem. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-14
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Francois Rivera
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Petitioner: Borislav Chernyy, Esq., The Chernyy Law Office, P.C., Staten Island, NY.
    for defendant: Attorney for Respondent: Kawansi Mandela Taylor, Esq., Law Office of Jaime E. Gangemi, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 526739/2021

    Insurance Law §5218 Does Not Apply Where Vehicle Owner/Operator Identified

  • Zicklin v. Bergdorf Goodman Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-14
    Practice Area: Toxic Torts
    Industry: Consumer Products | Retail
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Adam Silvera
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 190254/2019

    Experts Disagree if Talcum Powder Caused Plaintiff's Mesothelioma

  • Brown v. Howard Hughes Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-06
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Machelle Sweeting
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 152940/2021

    Action Survives Against Defendants Who Promote Event Where Plaintiff Was Injured

  • State v. Rivas

    Publication Date: 2022-07-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Albin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Smith, Jr., Assistant Deputy Public Defender (Joseph E. Krakora, Public Defender, attorney; James K. Smith, Jr., of counsel and on the briefs)
    for defendant: Regina M. Oberholzer, Deputy Attorney General (Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General, attorney; Regina M. Oberholzer, of counsel and on the briefs)
    Case Number: A-15-21 (086051)

    Potential Invocation of Right to Counsel Tainted Defendant's Confessions Where Police Did Not Cease Questioning or Confirm Defendant's Intentions

  • In the Interest of ALR

    Publication Date: 2022-07-04
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0658

    A father, who argued that the trial court's order terminating his parental rights was in error, successfully proved on appeal that he was entitled to relief.

  • In re UPS Ground Freight

    Publication Date: 2022-07-04
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Discovery | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-0827

    A delivery company, that was ordered to produce discovery for all of its employees following an accident involving a single driver, successfully proved on appeal that the request was overbroad.