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  • Gray v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, John H. Petrey, (Petrey Law, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Otobong U. Ekpo, Destiny H. Bryant, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee. James C. Bonner, Jr., (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Santos Fleischman, (Ross & Pines, LLC), Atlanta, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Lawrence Jason Zimmerman, (The Law Office of Lawrence J. Zimmerman), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20G0192

    Trial Court Does Not Have Jurisdiction to Modify a Sentence Outside the One-Year Period After a Sentence Is Imposed, When the Motion to Modify Is Filed Within the One-Year Period

  • Parlux Fragrances LLC v. S. Carter Enter. LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-11-06
    Practice Area: Evidence
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Andrew Borrok
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 650403/2016

    Plaintiff Entitled to Adverse Inference at Trial on Defendants' Spoliation of Evidence

  • Lester v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold Burton Baker, (Tift Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, Jennifer Dawn Hart, Robert Alan Rogers, Patrick Warren, (Tift Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0827

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Statements Defendant Made to Law Enforcement After Victim's Death or in Denying His Motion for Mistrial Arising From the Presence of an Alternate Juror During Jury Deliberations

  • People v. Lora

    Publication Date: 2020-11-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Juan Merchan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 9482-94

    Hearing Must be Held to Decide Whether Juvenile Defendant Was Properly Sentenced

  • Geer v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-04
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kermit S. Dorough, Jr., (Kermit S. Dorough, Jr., LLC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis Edward Hatcher, Frank Faison Middleton, IV, Charles Knox Wainright, II, Maggie Lynn McMichael, (Watson Spence LLP), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19G1265

    Party's Statutory Counterclaim for Attorney Fees Not Subject to Anti-SLAPP Statute Motion to Strike

  • Glenn v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Alston Pearlman, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, Brian Vance Patterson, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19G1236

    Common Law Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest Includes Right to Use Proportionate Force Against Government Property to Counter Illegal Detention

  • Eggleston v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    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, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lewis Ramon Lamb, (Southwestern Circuit District Attorney), Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1258

    Circumstantial Evidence Was Enough to Support Defendant's Convictions for Felony Murder and Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony

  • Vullo v. Park Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-28
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Shlomo Hagler
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    Case Number: 452877/2017

    Court Orders Insurance Company Deemed Insolvent to Be Placed Into Liquidation

  • Love v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-10-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Kang, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0802

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Denying Malice Murder Defendant's Motion to Suppress Statements to Law Enforcement or in Sentencing Him as a Juvenile to Serve Life Without Parole

  • People (ex rel. Farbman) v. Brann

    Publication Date: 2020-10-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court, Bronx
    Judge: Justice Martin Marcus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For the Petitioner: Alma Magana, Esq., The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For the Respondent: Assistant Corporation Counsel Lillian Wesley, New York City Law Department, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 260237/2020

    Court Holds Writ Should be Granted, Defendant Would Have Been Released From Custody