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Green v. State

Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S12A1182

Trial counsel's strategy in not objecting to hearsay statements from an eyewitness and the victim's brother was reasonable under the circumst

Cartwright v. State

Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
for defendant: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, William D. Hocutt IV, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S12A0686

A defendant failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims in his trial for felony murder and a firearms of

September 13, 2012 |

Court vacates $10.6 million malpractice judgment against Bryan Cave

A New York appeals court has vacated a verdict in which a jury found that the law firm Bryan Cave must pay $10.6 million for malpractice.

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Milford v. State

Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
for defendant: Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, John A. Regan, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S12A1283

The victim's statements to the responding officer were admissible as part of the res g

Moreno-Rivera v. State

Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Melton, Harold D.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charita H. Demps, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S12A0904

Trial counsel was not deficient in failing to tigate the victims' prior violent acts in a malice murder case because the defendant could not give counsel any information from which to conduct a

Green v. State

Publication Date: 2012-06-29
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Carley, George H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark J. Nathan, Assistant Public Defender, Savannah, for appellant.
for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S12A0853

Slight differences in the size, shading or clarity of photographs used in an identification line-up do not render a line-up impermissibly sugge

Huda T. Scheidelman, Petitioner-Appellant-Cross Appellee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent-Appellee-Cross Appellant1, 10-3587-ag

Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Jacobs, Ch.J., Leval and Livingston, C.JJ.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Petitioner-Appellant-Cross Appellee: Eduardo S. Chung, on the brief, Frank Agostino, Agostino & Associates, P.C., Hackensack, NJ.
for defendant: Patrick J. Urda (Kenneth L. Greene, on the briefs), for Gilbert Rothenberg, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent-Appellee-Cross Appellant.
Case Number: 10-3587-ag

Cite as: Scheidelman v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 10-3587-ag, NYLJ 1202560160915, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided June 15, 2012)Before: Jacobs, Ch.J., Lev

Henry v. State

Publication Date: 2012-06-15
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Adams, A. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marnique W. Oliver, Swainsboro, for appellant.
for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, District Attorney, and Mary K. McKinnon, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
Case Number: A12A0686

The trial court was not required to make an explicit finding of sufficient indicia of reliability before admitting the victim's out-of-court state

Kendrick v. State

Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Melton, Harold D.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Noah H. Pines Ross & Pines LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S12A0009

The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's request to charge the jury on involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense of felony murder, since the defendant's admitted act of pur

April 3, 2012 |

14 U.S. law firms merge in Q1 2012

Its steady as she goes for law firms so far this year when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. A survey released yesterday by legal consultancy Altman Weil Inc. says that 2012s M&A activity continues the rebound of law firm combinations that began in Q3 2010 and held firm through...

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