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  • Perkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0158

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence, trial court error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    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

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, George Epps Lipscomb, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0786

    Evidence Regarding Defendant's Prior Domestic Difficulties Was Intrinsic to Prosecution's Presentation of Murder Case

  • Lester v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-11-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold Burton Baker, (Tift Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, Jennifer Dawn Hart, Robert Alan Rogers, Patrick Warren, (Tift Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0827

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Statements Defendant Made to Law Enforcement After Victim's Death or in Denying His Motion for Mistrial Arising From the Presence of an Alternate Juror During Jury Deliberations

  • Clark v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Circuit Public Defender's Office), Gray, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Richard G. Milam, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney's Office), Barnesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A1021

    Trial Counsel Was Not Ineffective in Failing to Request That the Jury Be Instructed it Could Consider Co-Defendant's Felony Convictions in Assessing His Credibility

  • Crowder v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2020-07-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Glenn Alan Loewenthal, (Glen Loewenthal, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tiffany Collette Boulware, Tasha Monique Mosley, John Evans Fowler, Karen Smith Barbour, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee. Jimmy Dodd Berry, (Jim D. Berry, PC), Marietta, Lisa Lynn Wells, (Lisa L. Wells, LLC), Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: S19G0931

    In Rem Forfeiture Complaint May Be Served By Publication When Interest Holder Resides Out of State

  • Hood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Zina B. Gumbs, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0343

    No Reasonable Probability That Engaging Independent Firearms Expert Would Have Altered Trial Result

  • Martin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Lang Adams, Elizabeth Knight Presley, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney's Office), Barnesville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0273

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel, but vacates improper sentence and remands for resentencing

  • Driver v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Chappell, II, Roswell, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Leigh Ellen Patterson, Luke Anthony Martin, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1298

    Court Properly Admitted Into Evidence an Admission Defendant Made to Police While in Custody; Defendant Voluntarily Waived His Right to Counsel

  • The State v. Hamilton

    Publication Date: 2019-09-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia Jean Brooks, James Bradley Smith, (Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey R. Sliz, Lawrenceville, Matthew K. Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0722

    Trial Court Properly Applied Thirteenth-Juror Analysis When It Granted New Trial