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  • The State v. Randall

    Publication Date: 2022-11-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Washington Fleenor, Carroll Rudolph Chisholm, Jr., Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, Landon Mark Fogle, Ethan Merritt Makin, (Athens-Clarke County Solicitor General’s Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffery Alan Rothman, Anna Green Bolden, (Daniels & Rothman PC), Athens, for appellee; David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Atlanta, Jason B. Sheffield, (Peters, Rubin, Sheffield & Hodges), Decatur, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, Carlton Todd Hayes, (Cherokee County Solicitor General’s Office), Canton, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.), Cordele, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0664

    Trial Court Should Not Have Ruled on Constitutionality of Georgia's Implied Consent Statutes

  • Reese v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, Leslie Loraine Ray, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0521

    Trial Court Erred Prejudicially in Denying Defendant's Request to Give Modified Instruction on Affirmative Defenses

  • Watts v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Wesley Bryant, (Federal Defender Program Inc), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0754

    Police Interrogators Did Not Induce Statement By Impliedly Promising Confession Would Remove Threat of Death Penalty

  • ALP, Inc. v. Park W. Galleries, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-20
    Practice Area: Discovery
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Nancy M. Bannon
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    Case Number: 153949/2019

    Motion to Compel Discovery Dismissed for Overbroad, Speculative Demands

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara Mattes, (Barbara Mattes, Attorney at Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0548

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to admission of evidence, seating of a juror, limit on cross-examination, and cumulative error

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Allen Pflepsen, (Woodall and Pflepsen, P.C.), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory W. Edwards, Melinda April Wynne, (Dougherty County District Attorney’s Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1196

    Physical Evidence Was Sufficient to Overcome Defendant's "Unrebutted" Testimony He Fired Gun in Self-Defense

  • Wynwood Capital Group LLC v. God's Love Outreach Ministries

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
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    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau
    Judge: Justice Conrad D. Singer
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    Case Number: 615253/2021

    Dispute Over Whether Contract is a Usurious Loan Precludes Summary Judgment

  • The State v Burton

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Patrick Dean, Shalena Cook Jones, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Martin Gregory Hilliard, (Martin G. Hilliard PC), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0684

    State Failed to Show 16-Year-Old Defendant Knowingly and Voluntarily Waived His Miranda Rights

  • The State v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2022-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Juliana Sleeper, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keisha A Steed, (Office of the Metro Conflict Defender), Atlanta, James Gabriel Banks, (Banks Weaver LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0463

    Court vacates ruling that a murder defendant was entitled to immunity and remands for further review of whether defendant carried his burden of proof

  • Cioni v. Avon Prods., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-05
    Practice Area: Products Liability
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Adam Silvera
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    Case Number: 190069/2019

    Defendant's Rigorous Testing Protocols Defeat Claim for Punitive Damages in Asbestos Case