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  • Payne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine Morgan Mason, (Law Office of the Public Defender) Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony Brett Williams, (Paulding County District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1205

    Court affirms convictions in a child murder case over defendant's challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence and failure to give a jury charge, and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Redding v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kennon Peebles, Jr., Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederick Lewis, Sadhana Pandey Dailey, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1018

    Court vacates trial court's order on felony conviction and remands for reevaluation of defendant's speedy trial claim under proper framework

  • Lee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jody Donald Peterman, (Attorney at Law), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Andrew Rumker, Marilyn Parker Bennett, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Waycross, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1034

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence, challenges to admission of evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Vendrel v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cathy Morris Alterman, (Law Office of Cathy Morris Alterman), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Breedon, Brian Ashley Deal, Daphne Jarriel Totten, Keith A. McIntyre, (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Statesboro, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1024

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Holmes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reid G. Kennedy, (Law Offices of Kennedy and Kennedy), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Elizabeth Marian York, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0936

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to admission of psychiatric evidence and trial court's failure to issue an instruction on intellectual disability

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  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samir J. Patel, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0854

    Court affirms felony murder convictions over defendants' contentions of insufficient evidence, trial court error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Rashad v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine Morgan Mason, (Law Office of the Public Defender), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Ellen Patterson, Emily Griffin Johnson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0864

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of the evidence and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Harper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin David Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0810

    Court affirms felony murder convictions over defendant's claims of due process violations, and contentions of error regarding references to his statements and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Kennestone Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Wellstar Windy Hill Hospital v. Emory University d/b/a Emory University Hospital Smyrna, et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-29
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Boone Darden, Armando Luis Basarrate, II, Grace Park Blood, (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs, LLP), Atlanta, Robert D. Ingram, David Patrick Conley, (Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Charles Threlkeld, Elliott Leigh Coward, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, Stacey Ann Hillock, (Georgia Department of Community Health), Atlanta, Margaret Kemmerly Eckrote, Jeffrey William Stump, Christopher M. Carr, Charles K. Thimmesch, Cathelynn Tio, Stephen John Petrany, James Edward Barrett, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G1282

    Court clarifies that a hospital certificate of need ("CON") is a private property right, vacates appellate court opinion to the contrary, and remands for further analysis

  • Andreana Williams, Conservator v. Regency Hospital Company, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Hill, (Mayo Hill), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Norton Nelson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, Sharonda Boyce Barnes, (Huff Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0312

    Concluding that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal, Supreme Court transfers medical malpractice case involving constitutionality of non-tolling statute for mentally incompetent plaintiffs