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  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Marilyn Parker Bennett, John Andrew Rumker, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0894

    Court Affirms Malice Murder Conviction, Rejecting Defendant's Claims of Judicial Bias, Jury Instruction Errors, and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • Gude v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of the Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1356

    Court Affirms Convictions in a Felony Murder Case and Rejects Defendant's Claims of Jury Instruction Error and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • Williams et al. v. Powell et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David N. Dreyer, Quinton G. Washington, Deana Holiday Ingraham, (Washington Dreyer & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Gerald Richard Weber, Jr., (Law Offices of Gerald Weber, LLC), Atlanta, Ebony Jervonnè Brown, Megan Toomer, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, Zack Greenamyre, (Mitchell & Shapiro LLP), Atlanta, , for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Deborah Nolan Gore, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, Zachary Mullinax, Justin Thomas Golart, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0591

    Court constitutionality of statute that places restrictions on disruptive conduct in legislative spaces

  • Wallace v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Sarah Jane Thomas, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0422

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and firearm possession over defendant's arguments over sufficiency of evidence, his shackling and prison clothing during trial, and ineffective counsel

  • Williams v. Regency Hospital Company, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hill, (Mayo Hill), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Nelson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, Sharonda Boyce, (Huff Powell Bailey LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1035

    Court of Appeals affirms dismissal of medical malpractice claim, affirming constitutionality of statute limiting tolling for mentally incompetent plaintiffs

  • Joseph Poppell et al. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Durham, Robert Brian Tanner, (Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson LLC), Savannah, John E. Floyd, Jane D. Vincent, Manoj Sam Varghese, Jeffrey Weihao Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Ronald Elridge Harrison, II, (The Harrison Firm), Brunswick, Christopher William Madel, (Madel PA), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas S. Salter, John J. Haggerty, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Warrington, Stephen Derek Bauer, Christopher A. Wiech, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan. Randall A. Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Harold David Melton, William Alexander Smith, Anaid C. Reyes Kipp, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Amber M. Charles, (Covington and Burling, LLP), Washington, for appellee; Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24A0687

    Court affirms jury verdict in favor of drug distributors in an opioid-related negligence lawsuit, and dismisses as moot the distributors' challenge to the constitutionality of a statute

  • Stroud v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (The Appellate Division - Georgia Public Defender Council), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Patrick Doupé, Ali Pauline Ritch, (Toombs Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thompson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0069

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of evidence amid conflicting witness testimonies, and to denial of a directed verdict motion

  • Milton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Allan Rogers, (The Law Office of James A. Rogers), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Patrick Doupé, Ali Pauline Ritch, (Toombs Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thompson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0068

    Court affirms convictions for murder and gun possession over defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of evidence amid conflicting testimonies from witnesses

  • Andreana Williams, Conservator v. Regency Hospital Company, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Hill, (Mayo Hill), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Norton Nelson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, Sharonda Boyce Barnes, (Huff Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0312

    Concluding that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal, Supreme Court transfers medical malpractice case involving constitutionality of non-tolling statute for mentally incompetent plaintiffs

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Donnelly, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0846

    Trial Counsel Did Not Render Constitutionally Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Object to Multiple Portions of Lead Detective Testimony