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  • Nicholson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Lenny I. Krick, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0992

    Court affirms murder convictions of two gang members who participated in a planned killing

  • Gebhardt v. The State

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

  • 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

  • NLD Inc v. Huang

    Publication Date: 2020-01-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-17-00885-CV

    Appellee, Huang, brokered sale of a motel by Nyguen, the president of appellant NLD to buyer Bhakta.

  • In re GET

    Publication Date: 2020-01-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rodriguez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 04-19-00475-CV

    Child G.E.T. was born in 2016 and the relationship between mother and father ended in 2017.

  • Broussard v. Arnel

    Publication Date: 2020-01-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-18-00687-CV

    In 2010, appellant Broussard and appellee divorced and their decree named them joint managing conservators of their two minor children with appellant maintaining exclusive right to designate the children's primary residence.

  • Spence v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Victor Cornel Silverbach, (The Silverbach Group, LLC), Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Stephany Julissa Luttrell, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1334

    No Plain Error in Trial Court's Failure Sua Sponte to Instruct Jury on Defense of Accidental Death

  • S. Shore D'Lites LLC v. First Class Prods Grp.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-09
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Tanya Kennedy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 650827/2012

    No Substantive Nexus Found Between Actions to Warrant Disqualification of Defendant's Firm

  • Jordan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1226

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Concluding Hearsay Testimony Was Admissible Under Co-Conspirator Exception

  • Pension Inv. 99 LLC v. Broad St. Plaza Assocs.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-07
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Joel Cohen
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 654830/2019

    Plaintiff Granted Summary Judgment in Lieu of Complaint on Promissory Notes Due, Owing