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Stribling v. The State

Publication Date: 2018-09-05
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Andrew J. Ekonomou, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Woodbine, Richard A. Malone, (Office of The District Attorney), Jesup, for appellee.
Case Number: S18A0595

Defendant's actions were the proximate cause of a victim's death, where victim died after removal of life support

Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Christopher Steiner

Publication Date: 2018-07-12
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Grant
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Victoria Cuneo Powell (Department of Law), Atlanta; Kenneth Gene Lawrence (Turner & Lawrence PC), Jackson, for appellant.
for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, Kayci Nicole Dennis (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellee. Andrew Santos Fleischman (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta; Laura D. Hogue (Hogue & Hogue LLP), Macon; Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block (Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc), Atlanta; Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, Jamie B.J. Rush (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta; David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
Case Number: S18A0281

The superior court erred in finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee.

Caffee v. The State

Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Hicks (Law Offices of Gregory A. Hicks), Woodstock, for appellant.
for defendant: David Martin McElyea, Jessica K. Moss, Carlton Todd Hayes (Cherokee County Solicitor General's Office), Canton, for appellee.
Case Number: S17G1691

Probable Cause Will Not Justify Warrantless Search Absent Exception to Warrant Requirement

Leanos v. The State

Publication Date: 2018-05-24
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arturo Corso (The Corso Law Center LLC), Gainesville, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder (Department of Law), Atlanta; Lee Darragh, Shiv Sachdeva (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
Case Number: S18A0528

The evidence supported defendant's convictions for felony murder and other crimes in connection with the killing of a taxi driver.

Frye v. The State

Publication Date: 2018-03-28
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Overocker (Office of the Public Defender Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton, for appellant.
for defendant: Anne Allen (Assistant District Attorney), Carrollton; Peter Skandalakis (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
Case Number: A17A1554

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding certain evidence defendant sought to admit in his trial for child molestation and aggravated sexual battery of his minor granddaughter because the proposed evidence did not comport with the narrow exception to Georgias Rape Shield statute.

Wallace v. The State

Publication Date: 2018-03-12
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryann Faith Blend (Maryann F. Blend, Esq., PC.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
Case Number: S17A1900

Trial Court Did Not Err in Refusing to Reinstate Dismissed Juror

Barnett et al. v. Caldwell

Publication Date: 2018-02-27
Practice Area: Government | Wrongful Death
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Grant
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney Leighton Moore, III (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta; Shean DeCarlos Williams (The Cochran Firm Atlanta), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Cheryl Lynn Haas, Halima Horton, Kurt Eric Lentz, (McGuire Woods LLP), Atlanta; Matthew Allen Fitzgerald (McGuire Woods LLP), Richmond; Phillip L. Hartley (Harben, Hartley & Hawkins, LLP), Gainesville, for appellee.
Case Number: S17G0641

A teacher was entitled to official immunity in a wrongful death suit brought by parents of a child who died in the teacher's classroom while the teacher was out of the room, because the complained-of actions were discretionary and plaintiffs did not present evidence of actual malice or intent to injure.

Anglin v. The State

Publication Date: 2017-11-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, John B. Merchant III (The Merchant Law Firm, PC.), for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Michael Scott Carlson, D. Victor Reynolds (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
Case Number: S17A1153

The evidence supported defendant's convictions for felony murder and marijuana possession and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing State to introduce evidence of defendant's alleged membership in a gang, as there was some evidence presented at trial to show that the charged crimes were motivated by gang membership.

Olevik v. The State

Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance Warren Tyler (Tyler Law Firm, LLC), Suwanee, for appellant.
for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, Joelle M. Nazaire (Office of the Gwinnett County Solicitor General), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
Case Number: S17A0738

The Georgia Constitution's protection against compelled self-incrimination prohibits law enforcement from compelling a person suspected of DUI to blow their deep lung air into a breathalyzer.

July 3, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Supreme Court of Georgia Issues Discipline Decisions on 4 Lawyers

The justices on Friday reinstated one lawyer, rejected one lawyer's petition for voluntary discipline and suspended two lawyers with conditions for reinstatement.

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