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  • Bowman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Suzanne Wilkes, (Tallapoosa Circuit Public Defender), Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Craig Joseph Pake (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0642

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and challenge to admission of other acts evidence

  • Durden v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, Ryan C. Malone, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Mary Catherine Norman, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stacey Sherrard Jackson, Cynthia Dawn McDonald, (Chatahoochee Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0270

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to a Detective's testimony and claims of jury instruction error, but vacates armed robbery conviction due to merger doctrine error

  • Harper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin David Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0810

    Court affirms felony murder convictions over defendant's claims of due process violations, and contentions of error regarding references to his statements and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Steele v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0460

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's unsupported challenge to sufficiency of evidence, but vacates assault conviction that should have merged

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eliot Jay Abt, (ABT Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Katie Alice Hingerty Borodin, (The Hingerty Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rindi L. Harbeson, William Patrick Doupé, Terry L. Lloyd, (Toombs Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0518

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, juror selection error, and ineffective assistance

  • Munn v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Dalia Racine, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0100

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's multiple enumerations of trial court error and contentions of ineffective assistance

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tracy S. Drake, Scott Andrew Drake, (Drake Estes Law Firm LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0170

    Court affirms conviction for felony murder over defendant's contentions of trial court error in admitting certain evidence and not conducting an evidentiary hearing

  • Gardei v. Conway et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-18
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Monroe Mitchell, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Tuwanda Rush Williams, Murray Joseph Weed, (Gwinnett County Department of Law), Lawrenceville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Elizabeth McRary Crowder, Tina Michelle Piper, Christopher M. Carr, Andrew Alan Pinson Drew F. Waldbeser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0430

    Causes of Action in Petition Seeking Determination as to Sex Offender's Future Registration Requirements Had Not Yet Accrued

  • Miller v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry Michael Johnson, Nashville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1245

    Trial Court Properly Concluded That Claimed Discrepancies in Evidence and Testimony Did Not Mandate New Trial

  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-02-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County Solicitor General), Lawrenceville, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0256

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's argument that he had no preconceived intention to kill the murder victim.