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  • Pittman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David D. Marshall, (Law Office of David D. Marshall), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0013

    Court affirms murder and arson convictions over defendant's multiple procedural challenges regarding evidence, alleged impartiality of District Attorney, and denial of a mistrial

  • Regan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gordon Clark Hall, Jr., (Law Office of Gordon Hall, LLC), La Fayette Melinda Faye Johnson, (Johnson Law Firm), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bailey Rachel Simkoff, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0686

    Defendant's Sentence For Felony Child Molestation Violated Federal Equal Protection Rights

  • Kimbro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Allen Hoort, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0678

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and rape over defendant's multiple contentions of insufficient evidence, error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • P&D Ole Times, LLC v. McCray

    Publication Date: 2023-10-19
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Kennerly, John Smith, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Tate, Andrew Zemany, (Tate Law Group LLC), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1192

    Court reverses denial of a restaurant's summary judgment motion in a slip-and-fall case because injured plaintiff failed to exercise reasonable care for his safety

  • Schroeder Holdings, LLC et al. v. Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2023-01-26
    Practice Area: Government | Land Use and Planning | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Reeves, Jaletta Smith, (Andersen Tate & Carr), Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank Jenkins, Erik Pirozzi, (Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C.), Cartersville, Michael Ludwiczak, Melanie Wilson, (Gwinnett County Department of Law), Lawrenceville, for appellee; Meredith Germain, Valerie Ross, (Turner Ross Germain, LLC), Marietta, for AM.
    Case Number: A22A1585

    County's Denial of Rezoning Request Was Not Quasi-Judicial Decision Requiring Challenge By Way of Writ of Certiorari

  • Winslow v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Rust Knox, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit Public Defenders Office), Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jonathan Lang Adams, Dorothy Vinson Hull, Leslie Ann Tilson, Carolee Reed Jordan, (Towalinga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0498

    Defendant Consented to Search of Laptop, And Consent Was Never Withdrawn

  • Drennon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Virginia Lee Davis, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0511

    Trial Court Record Not Adequate For Review of Appellant's Claim of Denial of Right to Be Present During All of Trial

  • Slosberg v. Giller, et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-29
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick Skip Sugarman, Matthew Greer Hawk, (Sugarman Law, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tyler Charles Dixon, (Raiford & Dixon, LLC), Atlanta, Leah Ward Sears, Sasha Nina Greenberg, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Timothy Kyle King, (Hodges, McEachern & King), Peachtree City, Nikola R. Djuric, (Djuric Spratt P.A.), Atlanta for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G1226

    No-Contest Clause Did Not Bar Undue-Influence Claim Against Trust Instrument

  • Barrow v. Raffensperger

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade H. Tomlinson, III, Charles W. Byrd, George "Buddy" Darden, Michael Jonathan Moore, Michael P Morrill, Elizabeth Studdard White, (Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood), Atlanta, S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Russell David Willard, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, Elizabeth Ann Penland, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Joyce Gist Lewis, Adam Martin Sparks, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Monica Joy Hanrahan, (Hanrahan Freitag Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20A1029

    Secretary of State Could Not be Compelled to Hold Election in May For Position of Supreme Court Justice Whose Prospective Resignation In November Was Irrevocable

  • Westbrook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1120

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's arguments against sufficiency of evidence, trial court error, and assistance of counsel