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  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josh David Moore, Thea Adele Delage, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Atlanta, Brian Stull, (American Civil Liberties Union), Durham, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Sabrina Dawn Graham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee. Andrew John King, (Fisherbroyles, LLP), Atlanta, Laurence Shtasel, Taylor Lake, Heidi Crikelair, (Blank Rome LLP), Philidelphia, for Amicus Appellant. Vanessa J. Carroll, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21P0078

    Requiring Death Penalty Defendant to Prove Intellectual Disability Beyond Reasonable Doubt Not Unconstitutional

  • Hodges v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-09-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith, (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Elemuel Barnhill, John Andrew Rumker, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0709

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's contention over trial court error in denying a new trial motion on general grounds.

  • Bowden et al. v. The Medical Center, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-05
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Mitchell Lowrey, Michael Rosen Baumrind, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Charles A. Gower, Charles Austin Gower, (Charles A. Gower, P.C.), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: William N. Withrow, Lindsey Bowen Mann, (Troutman Sanders, LLP), Atlanta, Paul Douglas Ivey, Robert Calhoun Martin, Lauren King Dimitri, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Columbus, Miller Peterson Robinson, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Curtis Allen Garrett, James Francis Bogan, (Kilpatrick Stockton LLP), Atlanta, Robert Perry Sentell, Joseph Hixon Huff, (Kilpatrick Stockton LLP), Augusta, for Amicus Appellant. Jason Edward Bring, Chesley Sellers McLeod, William Jerad Rissler, (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S19G0494

    Court reverses class certification, and rules that a hospital was entitled to summary judgment on patient's fraud, misrepresentation, and RICO Act claims

  • Norris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, Christopher Ryan Lee, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Patrick Doupé, Dennis C. Sanders, James William Allen, (Toombs Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0500

    Juvenile Who Shot Her Father Not Entitled to Mistake-of-Fact Jury Instruction

  • Hill v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Rupp Cribbs, Veronica M. O'Grady, (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Allen Arnt, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0285

    Order Requiring Criminal Defendant to be Visibly Shackled During Six-Day Jury Trial Was Reversible Error

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    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

  • Rhynes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala, Christine Sieger Barker, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0509

    Court rejects murder defendant's challenge to admission of video recorded interview testimony

  • Park v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Citronberg, Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Tina Michelle Piper, Paula Khristian Smith, Rebecca Jean Dobras, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Vincent James Faucette, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm LLC), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1211

    Statute that required persons designated as sexually dangerous predators to wear GPS devices for life is declared unconstitutional

  • Doleman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-12-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bentley C. Adams, III, (Attorney At Law), Lihue, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta; Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Wesley Allen Lambertus, Frederick Lewis, A.D.A., (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1155

    No trial court error in admitting evidence located when primary homeowner consented to a search; no error in severing charges related to a continuous crime spree.