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  • Howard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Donnelly, (Western Circuit Public Defender's Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah Gonzalez, Burke Doherty, Brandon Thompson, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney), Athens, John Regan, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1488

    Court vacates superior court guilt and sentencing judgments in a gang activity for lack of subject matter jurisdiction over juvenile offenses

  • Solis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Madison Sisco, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Perry, (The Perry Law Firm), Winder, James Smith, (District Attorney), Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1752

    Court affirms convictions for sexual battery over defendant's contention of structural error and ineffective assistance, but reverses conviction for cruelty to children due to juror misconduct

  • Boone v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Chappell, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, (District Attorney), Rome, Ashley Cox, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1610

    Court affirms convictions for attempted child molestation, trafficking for sexual servitude, and computer pornography, but reverses convictions for obscene contact and attempted exploitation

  • Tracy Garner et al. v. Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Matthew Sellers, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, Matthew Cathey, (Cathey & Strain. LLC), Cornelia, Brian Blankenship, Las Vegas, Joshua K Conaway, Albuquerque, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Huff, Randolph Powell, Eric Wilder, Alexander Vey, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, Y. Williams, Anna Idelevich, Michael Weathington, (Weinberg Wheller Hudgins Gunn & Dial), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1090

    Court upholds dismissal of wrongful death claim due to lack of standing over a question of whether the plaintiffs were able to allege that an individual had died

  • Quantanilla-Solis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler Conklin, (Conklin Law Firm), Atlanta, Matthew Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Dane Uhelski, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1612

    Sufficient Evidence Presented to Corroborate Statutory Rape Conviction

  • Nelson v. McKenzie

    Publication Date: 2022-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrea Pawlak, (Schulten Ward & Turner, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alyson Lembeck, (Ellis Funk, P.C.), Atlanta, Juliette Lavallee, (Western Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0199

    Court reverses order that modified a father's child support payments due to errors in calculating his income and in evaluating educational expenses

  • Burrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Suzanne Brookshire, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit), Cartersville, Rosemary Greene, (District Attorney), Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1973

    Court affirms convictions for kidnapping and other crimes over defendant's challenges to jurisdiction and evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance

  • McCurdy v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Crawford, (Crawford and Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Henry Syms, Jared Williams, (District Attorney's Office Augusta Judicial Circuit), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0540

    Court affirms convictions for rape and child molestation but vacates sentence and remands for merger of counts relating to possession of sexually explicit videos

  • Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission v. New Georgia Project Action Fund et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-22
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Carr, Bryan Webb, Russell Willard, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Christian Fuller, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryan Sells, (Law Office of Bryan L. Sells LLC), Atlanta, Marc Elias, Aria Branch, Courtney Elgart, (Perkins Coie LLP), Washington, Joyce Lewis, Adam Sparks, (Krevolin & Horst LLC), Atlanta, Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1818

    Court reverses and remands a matter to the superior court for entry of an order enforcing a subpoena for documents and information from a campaign committee

  • Spires v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Adams, (Office of Circuit Public Defender), Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Fayette County District Attorney's Office), Fayetteville, Benjamin Coker, (District Attorney), Thomaston, Marie Broder, (Spalding County District Attorney's Office), Griffin, Brittany Fallin, (Upson County District Attorney's Office), Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1079

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Sustain Convictions for Aggravated Child Molestation, Incest, Sexual Exploitation of Children, and Child Molestation