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  • In the Matter of Gregory Bartko

    Publication Date: 2011-05-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta. Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and Rebecca A. Hall, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S11Y0713

    An attorney, who is appealing his federal felony convictions, is suspended until further order of the

  • In re Onipede

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robin N. Loeb CityGarlandSamuel & Loeb PC, placeCityAtlantaPaula J. Frederick, General Counsel, Kellyn O. McGee, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Catherine H. Hicks Fox, CityChandlerHoman, Hicks & McKinnon, CityGainesvilleand Anthony B. Askew, Review Panel Chairperson King & Spalding LLP, placeCityAtlanta
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10Y2043

    An attorney voluntarily surrendered her law license based on her guilty plea to theft by taking and theft by taking by a fidu

  • Jakupovic v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, Sadhana P. Dailey District Attorney's Office, Columbus, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0532

    The presumptively prejudicial near 19-month delay between the grant of the defendant's motion for a new trial on charges of murder and related offenses did not cause the defendant actual prej

  • Pareja v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel and William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G0960

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of alleged, but not previously reported, child abuse, which occurred 26 years before the charged crime, due to its similarity and i

  • Deleon v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel and William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Jennifer C. Bagwell, Gregory E. Radics, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0206

    The trial court did not err in failing to excuse a juror for cause, who stated several times that he could set aside any preconceived notions, as well as what he had read about the case before trial

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC and Bruce H. Morris Firestone & Morris, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0395

    The trial court did not err in allowing the state to dim the lights during closing argument so that the jury could view properly admitted photographs of the v

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, Jimmy D. Berry and D. Victor Reynolds Berry & Reynolds, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1971

    The trial court did not err in admitting evidence that the defendant's boyfriend died approximately six years after her husband died of similar ethylene glycol poisoning to show her motive, bent of

  • In re Pronk

    Publication Date: 2007-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Jenny K. Mittelman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Mark R. Pronk, Acworth. Gregory L. Fullerton, Chairperson Review Panel, Albany. Edward T. M. Garland Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S07Y0147

    An attorney, who pled guilty to aggravated assault, voluntarily surrendered his law li

  • Sullivan v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel, Edward T. M. Garland Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, and Josh D. Moore Georgia Capital Defenders, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Anne E. Green, Christopher D. Helms, Assistant District Attorneys, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1140

    O.C.G.A. § 16-1-8 c bars a subsequent prosecution only if the prior federal prosecution was for a crime within the concurrent jurisdiction of the

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel and William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Macon, John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Lewis M. Groover Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1041

    The defendant shot his ex-girlfriend through the ear, cut her throat and stabbed her two children to