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  • City of Atlanta v. 400 Edgewood, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-29
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Regulation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pat Dean Dixon, III, Pat D. Dixon, Jr., (Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law LLC), Atlanta, Raines Felton Carter, Erika Danielle Smith, (Office of the City Solicitor), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: 400 Edgewood, LLC, Duluth, Amin Panjwani, Duluth, for appellee; Tamara Miles Ogier, (Ogier, Rothschild & Rosenfeld, P.C.), Decatur, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S24C0347

    Court denies petition for certiorari in a nuisance abatement case

  • Huber v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cheryl Banks Hightower, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0170

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenges to evidence and sufficiency of evidence, and ineffective assistance, where defendant was not the direct executor of the crime

  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Horne Petrey, (Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Sarah Jane Thomas, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Ashley Cecelia O’Neal, Roderick B. Wilkerson, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0236

    Court affirms felony murder conviction and rejects defendant's claims that he should have been allowed to testify that he had PTSD, and that use of a military charge was improper impeachment

  • Powell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Withers, Sr., (Withers Law Firm PC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Keith Higgins, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Moruf O. Oseni, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0239

    Court reverses denial of general demurrer to indictments of former police officers for oath violations in a cased related to potential Brady violations and failures to investigate misconduct

  • Schmitt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Aspinwall Garland, Donald Franklin Samuel, Kristen Wright Novay, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta,for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Mary Catherine Norman, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Mario Kladis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0036

    Court reverses convictions for malice murder and other crimes due to error in failing to instruct the jury on accident as a defense

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  • Sconyers v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bobby Lee Christine, Kevin Richard Majeska, (Columbia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Evans, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0139

    Court affirms convictions in child murder case over defendant's challenges to evidence, jury instructions, and witness impeachment

  • Hooks v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Terry Bolden, (Bolden & Little LLC), Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Elemuel Barnhill, Alexander John Markowich, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0037

    Court affirms convictions in a felony murder case over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence which was all circumstantial with no physical evidence connecting defendant to the crimes

  • 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

  • Sauder v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade M. Crumbley, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Faith Donnell Worley, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory A. Futch, William Jeffrey Langley, (Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Blairsville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0011

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence, admission of evidence, and jury instruction and other errors

  • In the Matter of Paul Jason York.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-15
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis T. Cathey, (Cathey & Strain, LLC), Cornelia, for appellee; Michael J Blakely, Jr., (The Blakely Firm), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y0285

    Court rejects attorney's petition for voluntary three-year suspension of his license with pending reinstatement amid unresolved felony charges relating to forgery