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  • Finnissee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-09-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Strang, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradfield M. Shealy, Michelle Thomas Harrison, (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0966

    Trial Counsel's Decision Not to Request Jury Instruction on Lesser Offense of Voluntary Manslaughter Was Strategically Sound

  • Gebhardt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Scott Johnston, (Virgil L. Brown & Associates), Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, Brittany Ashton Fallin, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Griffin, Marc A. Mallon, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1582

    Evidence at Trial Was Sufficient to Support Conviction of Malice Murder in Connection with Torture and Stabbing That Took Place in 1983

  • 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