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  • In the Interest of C.C. et al., Children.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Buell Hume, (Hume, Jaacks & Associates, LLC), Cumming, Brittani Chandler, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ross Warren Bergethon, Shalen S. Nelson, Bryan Keith Webb, Emily Allen Harris, Christopher M. Carr, Hannah Basta, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kris-Ann Poe, Hiawassee Rochelle Ann Doyle, Roswell, for appellee; Melissa D. Carter, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, Edward Albert Bedard, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus; Mathew K. Titus, (Titus Law LLC), Alpharetta, Victoria Cuneo Powell, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Kurtis George Anderson, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S22A0584

    Juvenile Court Applied Wrong Standard in Determining Parents' Religious Objection to Vaccinating Children Was Insincere

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Tarleton Law, LLC), Atlanta, David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, Frederick Lewis, Alonza Whitaker, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0069

    Court reverses murder convictions because trial court erred in removing and replacing a juror who was unable to agree to a guilty verdict

  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah Lorraine Leslie, (The Leslie Group, LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, William Wright Banks, Jr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cedartown, for appellee; Jill Anderson Travis, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, James C. Bonner, Jr., (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S21A1270

    Criminal Defendant Alleging Deprivation of Right of Appeal Due to Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Must Seek Habeas Relief

  • Black Voters Matter Fund Inc. et al. v. Kemp et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Court Administration | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Thomas Rhodes, Samuel Aaron Emas, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, Vincent Robert Russo, Jr., Javier Pico-Prats, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Holly Anne Pierson, (Pierson Law LLC), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Christopher M. CarrBryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Wayne Brown, Samuel Ethan Meller, (Augusta Law Department), Augusta, George R. Hall, William James Keogh, III, James Christopher Driver, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, Barry Abbott Fleming, Frank Adam Nelson, Paul Simon Patterson Williams, (Fleming & Nelson, LLP), Evans, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1263

    Voter Advocacy Organization Lacked Standing to Challenge Legislation Splitting Judicial Circuit Into Two New Circuits

  • Morrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1273

    Evidence of Third Party Conduct Relevant as Other-Acts Evidence to Show Defendant's Consciousness of Guilt

  • The State v. Houston

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kenneth D. Kondritzer, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Keith Elliott Gammage, (Fulton County Solicitor General's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0957

    Habeas Court Properly Found Defendant Was Not Advised of His Right to Counsel at Plea Hearing

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josh David Moore, Thea Adele Delage, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Atlanta, Brian Stull, (American Civil Liberties Union), Durham, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Sabrina Dawn Graham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee. Andrew John King, (Fisherbroyles, LLP), Atlanta, Laurence Shtasel, Taylor Lake, Heidi Crikelair, (Blank Rome LLP), Philidelphia, for Amicus Appellant. Vanessa J. Carroll, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21P0078

    Requiring Death Penalty Defendant to Prove Intellectual Disability Beyond Reasonable Doubt Not Unconstitutional

  • Merritt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Mark Shelnutt, (The Law Offices of J. Mark Shelnutt), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Frederick Lewis, Wesley Allen Lambertus, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1190

    No Error in Trial Court's Refusal to Instruct on Voluntary Manslaughter and Duty to Retreat

  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-12-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Alexander Miller, (Steven A. Miller Law), Summerville, Christina Rupp Cribbs, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Allen Arnt, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., Kevin Jameson Baugh, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1081

    Any Error in Admission of Statement Implicating Co-Conspirator Was Harmless

  • Norman et al. v. Xytex Corp. et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Francis McDonough, (Heninger Garrison & Davis, LLC), Atlanta, Nancy Hersh, Kate Hersh-Boyle, (Hersh & Hersh), San Francisco, David Blake Newdorf, (Newdorf Legal), Oakland, William L. Garrison, Jr., (Heninger Garrison Davis), Birmingham, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Edward Lavender, Alison Lawrence Currie, Andrew John King, (Fisherbroyles, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Timothy D Lytton, (Georgia State University College of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S19G1486

    Rule Barring "Wrongful Birth" Claims Did Not Necessarily Bar All Claims Based on Defective Sperm