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  • Maynor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0753

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Alleged Failure to Adequately Cross-Examine Prosecution Witness

  • People v. Caselnova

    Publication Date: 2023-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Saratoga
    Judge: Justice James A. Murphy III
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For the People: Alan M. Poremba, First Assistant District Attorney, Saratoga County Office of the District Attorney.
    for defendant: For Defendant: Gregory J. Teresi, Esq., Attorney for the Defendant.
    Case Number: H-082-2023V

    Unfairness Towards Defendant Grants Defendant's Omnibus Motion, Motion to Dismiss

  • Ford Motor Company v. Cosper

    Publication Date: 2023-10-11
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip Andrew Henderson, Michael Roger Boorman, (Watson Spence LLP), Atlanta, Paul Frederich Malek, D. Alan Thomas, (Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP), Birmingham, Michael W. Eady, (Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP), Austin, Timothy M Andrews, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nathan Riggs Nicholson, Matthew Evan Cook, Kate Sievert Cook, Robert Harold Childres, III, (Cook Law Group, LLC), Gainesville, C. Tab Turner, Damon C. Singleton, (Turner & Associates, P.A.), North Little Rock, David Hogue, (Hogue Law Firm, PLLC), Fayetteville, Jonathan Andrew Parrish, (The Parrish Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., Tedra L. Cannella, (Canella Snyder LLC), Atlanta, Alyssa Bernadette Baskam, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC.), Atlanta, Madeleine Norine Simmons, (Stewart Miller Simmons), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S23Q0625

    Reckless conduct under OCGA §51-1-11(c), as newly defined by the Court, is a standalone exception to the 10-year statute of repose in OCGA §51-1-11(b)(2).

  • Salvesen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard W Anderson, III, (Truluck Thmason LLC), Greenville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0433

    Murder Defendant Was Not Unduly Prejudiced by Admission of Gruesome Photograph of Victim's Decomposed Body

  • Martinez v. 1114 6th Ave. Owner LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-09-28
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Sabrina Kraus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 159829/2020

    Discovery Granted In Part as It Pertained to Any Subsequent Injury In Personal Injury Case

  • Beltran-Gonzales v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Chappell, II, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Jameson Baugh, Matthew William Moore, Clayton McLean Fuller, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Ringgold, Chris Allen Arnt, (Superior Court Judge-LMJC), Trenton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0710

    Trial Counsel's Decision Not to Object to Joint Murder Trial Was Not Objectively Unreasonable

  • Morris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0588

    Court affirmed convictions for malice murder over defendant's contentions that the evidence was insufficient to support those convictions

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eliot Jay Abt, (ABT Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Katie Alice Hingerty Borodin, (The Hingerty Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rindi L. Harbeson, William Patrick Doupé, Terry L. Lloyd, (Toombs Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0518

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, juror selection error, and ineffective assistance

  • Whittaker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., Matthew William Moore, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney), LaFayette, Chris Allen Arnt, (Superior Court Judge-LMJC), Trenton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0613

    Evidence of Defendant's Brutal and Excessive Attacks Supported Malice Murder Conviction

  • FAMILY GUARDIAN SERVICES, INC., as Guardian of PHILIP A. ROBINSON, an Incapacitated Person v. Fensterman

    Publication Date: 2023-09-21
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Karen B. Rothenberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 531117/2022

    Motion to Dismiss Granted in Part as Plaintiff Had Not Relation to Debt or Debtor