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  • Benton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Public Defender's Office Griffin Judicial Circuit), Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel Altman, Courtney Patterson, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1142

    Girlfriend's Testimony That Defendant Sold Drugs Was Corroborated by Evidence Found in Warrant Search

  • Reyes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Smith, (The Smith Group, Attorneys at Law), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifford Bowden, Jennifer Hart, (District Attorney), Tifton, for appellee. Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A1445

    Court affirms defendant's convictions for child molestation and sexual battery over his contentions of insufficiency of evidence and trial court error

  • The State v. Wilkerson

    Publication Date: 2020-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Bishop, Thomas Earnest, Ronald McNease, (District Attorney's Office Pataula Judicial Circuit), Cuthbert, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald Parker, (Assistant Public Defender), Bainbridge, Christina Cribbs, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1253

    In granting a defendant's motion for a new trial, the trial court did not improperly conflate standards for legal sufficiency of evidence with standards for general grounds

  • Hogg v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-08-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Hildebrand, (Hildebrand Law Office, P.C.), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Franklin, Elizabeth Evans, (Assistant District Attorney Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit), Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0394

    Conduct Charged in Two Separate Counts in Child Molestation Case Was a Single Unit of Prosecution; Those Counts Should Have Been Merged for Sentencing

  • Paris v. E. Michael Ruberti, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-07-31
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Contractual Disputes | Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Hames, (The Hames Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Blackerby, (Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner), Brunswick, E. Ruberti, (E. Michael Ruberti, LLC), ST. Simons Island, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0656

    Trial Court Erred in Calculating and Awarding Damages Based on Breach of a Contingency Fee Agreement When the Contingency Had Not Occurred

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  • McMurray v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sabrina Nizamuddin, Daniel Porter, (District Attorney Gwinnett Justice & Administrative Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0744

    Evidence Did Not Support Conviction for Theft by Receiving Stolen Property; Search Warrant Affidavit Failed to Establish Probable Cause

  • Tyner v. Edge et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-25
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Elrod, (Attorney at Law), Oakwood, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Kim, Samuel Bagwell, (Kim and Bagwell, LLC), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0265

    Court affirms summary judgment in a quiet title action in favor of a purchaser that redeemed back taxes and properly foreclosed on a parcel of commercial property

  • In the Interest of N. T., a child.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randee Waldman, (Emory University School of Law Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0118

    Court affirms juvenile court's order of delinquency and restitution over objections to appointment of guardian and defendant's ability to pay

  • Williams v. Dekalb County et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-11
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Williams, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bennett Bryan, Laura Johnson, Shaheem Williams, Terry Phillips, (DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0157

    Court reverses denial of petitioner's motion for pauper status because trial court did not hold a proper hearing on that motion

  • Sprowson v. Villalobos

    Publication Date: 2020-05-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashley Alfonso, Timothy Lemke, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Noble Boykin, (Jones, Boykin & Associates), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2279

    Court reverses denial of employee's summary judgment motion because temporary employee's sole tort remedy was under the Workers' Compensation Act.