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  • Culverson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Thomas, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Mulholland, Christopher Quinn, Banks Smith, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0543

    Court affirms convictions for invasion of privacy and sexual battery over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence, juror's post-evidence review of an exhibit, and claims of cumulative error

  • Buchanan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean Lowe, (Assistant Public Defender), Ringgold, Jonathan Hamrick, (Cox Byington Twyman LLP), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, Natalee Staats, (Assistant District Attorney - Floyd County), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0475

    Court reverses sex offender registration conviction because the State failed to present sufficient evidence of the time frame for the violation

  • Strickland v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Hewitt, (Appellate Attorney GPDC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Higgins, (District Attorney’s Office for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, Benjamin Gephardt, (District Attorney’s Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Kingsland, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0344

    Court affirms child molestation convictions and rejects defendant's due process claim that was based on a 20-year delay and his contentions of insufficient evidence

  • The State v. Carlton

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shalena Jones, Gabriel Justus, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Phillips, Jonathan Phillips, (Phillips Carson & Phillips), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0134

    Court reverses dismissal of charges filed more than four years after a criminal incident, finding that indictment did not need to refer to COVID-19 emergency extension of statute of limitations

  • Clemons v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler Conklin, (Conklin Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Thomas Williams, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0083

    Court affirms denial of hearing on motion to withdraw a 12-year old guilty plea, which motion had been withdrawn by the defendant after he entered his initial plea

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  • Noellien v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Jefferson, (Attorney At Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Flynn Broady, Leslie Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0011

    Court affirms drug convictions based on circumstantial evidence over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and his argument that he was merely present at the crime scene

  • Cochran v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Greg Willis, Casey Cleaver, Jessica Jones, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sonya Chachere-Compton, William Smith, (Douglas County Solicitor General’s Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0013

    Court reverses dismissal of defendant's motion to suppress evidence in a DUI case, finding that the motion adequately detailed assertions that a traffic stop was pretextual and lacked probable cause

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy Copeland, (Rouse + Copeland LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joe Skeens, Billy Nelson, (Office of the District Attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit), Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0459

    Court affirms conviction for child molestation over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of error in not giving a certain jury instruction on a. lesser included offense

  • Stewartson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd Matthews, (Attorney at Law), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0166

    Court affirms convictions for voluntary manslaughter and firearm possession over defendant's challenges to a jury instruction on mutual combat and contentions of constitutional rights violations

  • Smalley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marie Broder, (Spalding County District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0663

    Court vacates first-time felon's sentencing order and remands for trial court's inclusion in that order of a Behavioral Incentive Date (BID) as mandated by OCGA § 17-10-1 (a) (1) (B) (i)