• Golden Pantry Food Stores, Inc. v. Bradley

    Publication Date: 2024-04-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Premises Liability
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackson Dial, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC), Atlanta, Austin Atkinson, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: ShaMiracle Rankin, (CP Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, Christopher Graddock, Keenan Nix, (Morgan & Morgan Atlanta, PLLC), Atlanta, Darren Summerville, Meghan Hatfield Yanacek, (The Summerville Firm), Atlanta, Meredith Kincaid, (Cross Kincaid), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1597

    Court vacates spoliation sanctions against retail food store in a pair of premises liability cases and remands for reconsideration of plaintiff's actions under an alternate standard

  • Hartman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-04-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren Shubow, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, (The Law Offices of Fani T. Willis, LLC), Atlanta, Teri Walker, Richard Caplan, Claude Rudder, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A20A1911

    Court affirms convictions for rape and aggravated sodomy over defendant's challenges to evidence and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • The State v. Gilmore

    Publication Date: 2020-07-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh Patterson, Luke Martin, Morgan Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean Lowe, (Assistant Public Defender), Ringgold, Jonathan Hamrick, (Rome Circuit Public Defender Office), Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A20A0189

    Confidential informant's video recording of a drug deal was barred under Confrontation Clause because informant was unavailable for cross-examination

  • Hudson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter, Lee Tittsworth, Samuel D'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A2108

    Defendant's confession of sexual assault was voluntary and not coerced by threats of physical harm, and Defendant's motion to suppress his confession was properly denied