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  • February 10, 2020 | New York Law Journal

    When Will a Criminal Lawyer Report His Client?

    In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Joel Cohen explores a lawyer's dilemma of whether to inform the court of a concern that there is an intent by a client to commit perjury.

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  • Driver v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    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

  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon A. Bullard, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0409

    Court Affirms in Part and Reverses in Part Convictions Where Evidence Was Sufficient to Support Murder Conviction but Did Not Support Financial-Transaction Card Fraud Conviction When Attempts to Use Victim's Debit Card Failed

  • Ivey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S18A1030

    Evidence Supported Jury's Finding That Defendant Did Not Shoot Victim in Self-Defense

  • Flannigan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-02-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin David Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Teri Brown Walker, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1209

    Murder conviction affirmed after court rejects defendant's arguments on trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • April 3, 2017 | Litigation Daily

    Lateral Report: The Few, the Proud, the March Movers

    There weren't many run-of-the-mill lateral litigator moves in March, the kind where a mid-level partner at Big Firm A moves to Big Firm B, spouting something about platforms and synergy. Instead, t

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  • United States v. Dowai

    Publication Date: 2016-10-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Constitutional Law
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    Date Filed: 2016-10-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Ramona V. Manglona, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Consuelo M. Callahan and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garth R. Backe (argued) and Ross K. Naughton, Assistant United States Attorneys; Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Joseph E. Horey (argued), O'Connor Berman Dotts & Banes, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 14-10277

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 10957 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. XIAOYING TA

  • July 19, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    By Unanimous Decision

    On June 3, the world lost Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer of all time. At 22, he won the world heavyweight title, a title he successfully defended six times in the 1960s. In 1966, Ali was d

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  • January 12, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Dan Krisch: Gun Advocates Misinterpret Second Amendment's Meaning

    I want to get textual so we can hear the Constitution talk. Early last month, Justice Clarence Thomas waded into the national clamor over gun violence and gun control. In a scathing dissent

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