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  • McGouirk v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Rust Knox (Towaliga Judicial Circuit Public Defenders Office), Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Lang Adams, Anita Reynolds Howard, Richard G. Milam, Cynthia Trimboli Adams (Towaliga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Barnesville; Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0130

    The trial court erred in automatically detaining defendant pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 17-7-130 (c) solely based on the fact that he was a mentally incompetent individual who had been accused of committing violent crimes without exercising its discretion to make "an individualized determination of whether his confinement reasonably advanced the government's purpose.

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-04-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Rupp Cribbs, Jacob Dennis Rhein (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta; Russell Robert Jones (Office of the Public Defender), Springfield, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick (Department of Law), Atlanta; Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, Rebecca Ashley Wright (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1627

    The trial court did not err in admitting certain evidence in defendant's trial for the murder of an elderly disabled man for whom defendant provided live-in care.

  • The Mayor and Aldermen of Garden City v. Harris et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-02-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick T. O'Connor, David William Bobo Mullens, III, James Philip Gerard (Oliver Maner LLP), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Dorian Britt (Karsman, McKenzie & Hart), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0692

    City was entitled to summary judgment in plaintiffs' suit to recover for injuries their daughter suffered at a City-owned and maintained football stadium because the Recreational Property Act provided immunity to City since the injured party was allowed to use City's property for recreational purposes free of charge.

  • Lockamy v. Lockamy

    Publication Date: 2017-10-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garnett Harrison, Jacqueline NiCole Fortier (Garnett Harrison PC), Kingsland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Allen Sanders, Jr. (Andrews & Sanders Law Offices), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0966

    The trial court erred in granting wife's motion to reform a divorce decree because she untimely filed the motion more than six years after the entry of the judgment.