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  • The State v. Turner

    Publication Date: 2018-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Ryan Reese Leonard, Bonnie Kaye Smith, A.D.A., Anna Vaughan-Upshaw, Sean Alexander Garrett, Senior A.D.A. (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dolly M. Fairclough, (Law Offices of D. M. Fairclough), Snellville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0957

    Court Affirms Suppression of Items Seized in House in Parental Infanticide Case

  • Blount v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-05-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Alexander McQueen (McQueen Law Office LC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick (Department of Law), Atlanta; Jon Richard Forwood, Kenneth W. Mauldin, Brian Vance Patterson (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0201

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for murder and related offenses arising out of a drive-by shooting and defendant failed to demonstrate that he received ineffective assistance of counsel.

  • De La Cruz v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Terry Benton, Derin Bronson Dickerson, Francisco Gonzalez-Burgos, Tejas Surendra Patel, Kacy Brake, Emily Catherine Hootkins, Andrew J. Liebler, Andrew M. Brown (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Mary Catherine Greaber, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Allen Lawson, Richard Lowery Perryman III (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Nashville; Bianca Plair Goodman (Muscogee County Solicitor General's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1887

    21-Year Delay in Resolving Motion for New Trial Did Not Violate Defendant's Due Process Rights

  • Patton v. Vanterpool

    Publication Date: 2017-11-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Allen Sanders, Jr. (Andrews & Sanders Law Offices), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Benton Purvis, Michael Eric Manely (The Manely Firm, PC.), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0767

    The Court reversed the grant of summary judgment to mother on the issue of paternity in a divorce action, finding that O.C.G.A. 19-7-21, which creates an irrebuttable presumption of legitimacy with respect to children conceived by means of artificial insemination does not extend to children conceived by in-vitro fertilization treatment.