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  • Sharkey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A1096

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and armed robbery, dismissing challenges to evidence sufficiency, failure to admit evidence, and effectiveness of counsel

  • Pierce v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton , Clint Christopher Malcolm Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kelsey Smith, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, Tasha Monique Mosley, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0525

    Court affirms murder, arson, and gang convictions despite defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and claims of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Hostetler v. The State et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Greg Allen Willis, Jessica Jones, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leah Cristina Mayo, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0524

    Court vacates denial of habeas petition as not being moot, although defendant had completed her sentence, due to potential recidivist sentencing

  • Smith et al. v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Scott Anulewicz, Wayne R. Beckermann, (Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP), Atlanta, Douglas Ray McMillan, (Shingler & McMillan LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Christopher Michael Quinn, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee; Lynsey M Barron, (Barron Law LLC), Atlanta, Daniel L. Alban, Anna J. Goodman, (Institute For Justice), Arlington, Paul Oliver, Les A. Schneider, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, Thomas Leland Walker, (Vernis & Bowling of Atlanta, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G0701

    Court reverses and remands civil asset forfeiture case, finding that the State's complaint failed to adequately allege essential elements of theft by taking.

  • Regan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gordon Clark Hall, Jr., (Law Office of Gordon Hall, LLC), La Fayette Melinda Faye Johnson, (Johnson Law Firm), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bailey Rachel Simkoff, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0686

    Defendant's Sentence For Felony Child Molestation Violated Federal Equal Protection Rights

  • Maynor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0753

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Alleged Failure to Adequately Cross-Examine Prosecution Witness

  • Ford Motor Company v. Cosper

    Publication Date: 2023-10-11
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip Andrew Henderson, Michael Roger Boorman, (Watson Spence LLP), Atlanta, Paul Frederich Malek, D. Alan Thomas, (Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP), Birmingham, Michael W. Eady, (Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP), Austin, Timothy M Andrews, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nathan Riggs Nicholson, Matthew Evan Cook, Kate Sievert Cook, Robert Harold Childres, III, (Cook Law Group, LLC), Gainesville, C. Tab Turner, Damon C. Singleton, (Turner & Associates, P.A.), North Little Rock, David Hogue, (Hogue Law Firm, PLLC), Fayetteville, Jonathan Andrew Parrish, (The Parrish Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., Tedra L. Cannella, (Canella Snyder LLC), Atlanta, Alyssa Bernadette Baskam, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC.), Atlanta, Madeleine Norine Simmons, (Stewart Miller Simmons), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S23Q0625

    Reckless conduct under OCGA §51-1-11(c), as newly defined by the Court, is a standalone exception to the 10-year statute of repose in OCGA §51-1-11(b)(2).

  • Beltran-Gonzales v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Chappell, II, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Jameson Baugh, Matthew William Moore, Clayton McLean Fuller, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Ringgold, Chris Allen Arnt, (Superior Court Judge-LMJC), Trenton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0710

    Trial Counsel's Decision Not to Object to Joint Murder Trial Was Not Objectively Unreasonable

  • Morris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0588

    Court affirmed convictions for malice murder over defendant's contentions that the evidence was insufficient to support those convictions

  • Wood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, III, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0637

    Evidence Did Not Support Defendant's Claim He Shot Victim in Self-Defense