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  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Richard King, (SK Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth A. Baker, Constance Monique Harris, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0436

    Crime-Scene Video Did Not Support Defendant's Self-Defense Claim

  • Hollmon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of The Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Emily Kathleen Richardson, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1464

    Court Affirms Dismissal of Challenge to Illegally Imposed Sentence on Basis that Post-Conviction Motion Raised Errors Not Pursued in Direct Appeal but Vacates Sentence as Legal Nullity

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace Carter Clayton II (Jones, Morrison & Womack, PC.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Michael Scott Carlson, D. Victor Reynolds (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta; Gregg M. Jacobson (Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams and Aughtry), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0764

    The evidence supported defendant's conviction for the malice murder of his wife and any error in the trial court's decisions to admit evidence of defendant's prior bad acts and allow State to perform a demonstration was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt.