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  • Priester v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-05-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Snyder Adams, (The Snyder Adams Law Firm), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0109

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other offenses over defendant's challenge to admission of evidence and jury instructions

  • Moten v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lela Julia Acker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Richard Lowery Perryman, Jennifer Rue Smith, Chase Landon Studstill, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1214

    Court vacates order denying defendant's new trial motion and remands for consideration of amended grounds that trial court had declined to consider

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Allen Pflepsen, (Woodall and Pflepsen, P.C.), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory W. Edwards, Melinda April Wynne, (Dougherty County District Attorney’s Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1196

    Physical Evidence Was Sufficient to Overcome Defendant's "Unrebutted" Testimony He Fired Gun in Self-Defense

  • The State v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2022-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Juliana Sleeper, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keisha A Steed, (Office of the Metro Conflict Defender), Atlanta, James Gabriel Banks, (Banks Weaver LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0463

    Court vacates ruling that a murder defendant was entitled to immunity and remands for further review of whether defendant carried his burden of proof

  • Awad v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. Benjamin Sessions, (The Sessions Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Patrick Higgins, Jr., Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr., (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee; Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Kimberly A. Dymecki, Peachtree Corners, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (Paulding County Public Defender's Office), Dallas, for Amicus Appellant; Omeeka P. Loggins, (Augusta-Richmond County Solicitor General's Office), Augusta, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., Gilbert Alexander Crosby, (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus; Andrew Alan Pinson, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21G0370

    Court determines that evidence of a defendant's refusal to submit a urine sample is inadmissible because admission violates the right against compelled self-incrimination

  • Hughs v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lyndsey Alaine Hix, (Augusta Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0970

    Trial Counsel's Failure to Present Competing Medical Expert Testimony on Cause of Death Was Not Unreasonable Tactical Decision