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  • Wells v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reggie Allen Lampkin, (R. A. Lampkin, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1592

    Defendant's Confrontation Rights Were Not Violated When Court Admitted Inculpatory Statements of Accomplice Who Testified at Trial

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Betsey L. Tate, (Office of the Appellate Defender, Georgia Public Defender Council), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1432

    Evidence Regarding Investigator's Course of Conduct During Crime Investigation Was Not Admissible to Show Guilt

  • Denson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard C. Hagler, (Hagler, Jackson & Walters), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, George Epps Lipscomb, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1396

    Identification Testimony, Although Not Corroborated by Physical Evidence, Was Sufficient to Support Malice Murder, Armed Robbery Convictions

  • Bullard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Perry Waters, (Attorney at Law), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jason Michael Martin, Shelley T. Milton, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1017

    Court affirms murder and gang crimes convictions over defendant's challenges to sufficiency and use of evidence

  • Clark v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manubir Singh Arora, (Arora & Lascala, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ryan Reese Leonard, Sean Alexander Garrett, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1344

    Malice Murder Defendant's Claim of Defense of Habitation Not Supported by Evidence

  • McGuire v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Rust Knox, Douglas Patrick Smith, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit Public Defenders Office), Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Lang Adams, Richard G. Milam, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney's Office), Barnesville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1215

    Court affirms malice murder conviction and rejects defendant's alternative hypothesis on voluntary manslaughter

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean Justin Lowe, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Rome, David James Dunn, Jr., (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., Melissa Ann Pittman, Christopher Allen Arnt, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1248

    Court rejects defendant's constitutional challenges to sentence for sexual battery

  • Reed v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Layla Hinton Zon, Amber Rae Bennett, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1342

    Police Did Not Improperly Induce Defendant's Incriminating Pretrial Statement by Hope of Benefit

  • People v. Steininger

    Publication Date: 2020-01-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Daniel Conviser
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For the People: Guy Tardanico and Denise Vasel, New York County District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
    for defendant: For Defendants Salvatore Mazzio, Angelo Mazzio and Michael Mazzio: John Rapawy. For Defendant Karen Steininger: John Russo. For Defendant Jaime Bautista: Jonathan Cartelli.
    Case Number: 0080/18

    Transitional Bail Waivers Found a Lawful Securing Order Condition if Sought by Defendants

  • Corning v. Elms Realty Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-06
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Construction | Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Debra Silber
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 509580/2016

    'Building or Structure' Does Not Have to Be a Permanent One to Be Covered by Labor Law