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  • Medina v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, (D Lowell Thomas PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Alana Jane Driscoll, (Dekalb County District Attorneys Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0505

    Trial Court's Mistrial Declaration After the Jury Returned and Published its Verdict on a Count Renders Ineffectual Any Attempt to Declare a Mistrial on That Count

  • Dobbins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah Lorraine Leslie, (The Leslie Group, LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Mathew Eli Plott, (Office of The Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0402

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Failing to Give Curative Instruction When Prosecutor Referenced Defendant's 'Previous Trial' Before the Jury

  • Mathis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Alexander McQueen, (Northeastern Circuit Public Defender's Office), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0134

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Move For Immunity From Prosecution or to Call For Immunity Witnesses

  • Glover v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jerome M. Rothschild, Jr., Abigail Beth Long, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0133

    Prosecutor's Closing Argument Comment Regarding Defendant's Decision Not to Exercise Right to Silence Was Not Improper

  • Redding v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kennon Peebles, Jr., Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Ray Winston Daniel, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0177

    Trial Court Failed to Apply Proper Standard to Claim That Defendant Was Denied Right to a Speedy Trial; Court Must Resolve That Claim Under the Proper Standard

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  • S&S Towing & Recovery, Ltd. et al. v. Charnota

    Publication Date: 2020-07-14
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mason Bradley Rountree, (Rountree Law Firm), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack Edward Clay, (Jack Clay Law Firm, LLC), Marietta, Robert Wesley Starrett, (Starrett Law, LLC), Metairie, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0161

    Statute Providing That an Animal Running at Large in Violation of Local 'Leash Law' Is Considered 'Vicious' Does Not Violate Procedural Due Process

  • The State v. Pauldo

    Publication Date: 2020-07-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cheryl Banks Hightower, Louie Craig Fraser, Robert Brandon Faircloth, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicole Fegan, (Fegan Law, LLC), Atlanta, Ryan Christopher Locke, (Locke Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0191

    Court Reverses Granting of Defendant's Motion in Limine to Exclude Portions of Custodial Interview With Police; Defendant Waived His Rights Before Further Interrogation Began

  • Crowder v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2020-07-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Glenn Alan Loewenthal, (Glen Loewenthal, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tiffany Collette Boulware, Tasha Monique Mosley, John Evans Fowler, Karen Smith Barbour, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee. Jimmy Dodd Berry, (Jim D. Berry, PC), Marietta, Lisa Lynn Wells, (Lisa L. Wells, LLC), Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: S19G0931

    In Rem Forfeiture Complaint May Be Served By Publication When Interest Holder Resides Out of State

  • Scott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Noah Jared Abrams, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0125

    Physician's Letter and Representations of Counsel Were Sufficient to Establish Crime Victim Was Not Available to Testify at Trial

  • Heard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Paul Sharp, (Sharp Georgia Law Firm), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth A. Baker, (Fayette County District Attorney's Office), Fayetteville, Tracy Graham Lawson, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0064

    Other-Acts Evidence of Later Crimes Was Admitted in Error, Prejudicing Defendant