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  • Walker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for Appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0779

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's challenges to evidence and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel.

  • Heade v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelsey Lynne Geary, (The Geary Law Firm, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sabrina Nizamuddin, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0409

    Evidence of Defendant's Prior Criminal Acts Was Intrinsically Connected to Current Charges

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Faith Arndt, (Newton County Public Defender's Office), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, Walter Cliff Howard, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0297

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Find Appellant Guilty Beyond a Reasonable Doubt of Felony Murder and Related Crimes

  • Sullivan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of the Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0229

    Court Affirms Malice Murder and Related Convictions; Defendant Fails to Show His Trial Counsel Was Ineffective for Failure to Present Evidence of Victim's Gang Affiliation

  • Hood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Rupp Cribbs, (Georgia Innocence Project), Atlanta, Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Brian Vance Patterson, (The Law Office of Brian V. Patterson, LLC), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0267

    Appellant Failed to Establish Reasonable Probability That Jury Would Have Reached a Different Verdict Had it Been Aware of Material Impeachment Evidence Relating to Witness

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  • Kelly v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chevene B. King, Jr., (C. B. King & Associates), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Darius T. Pattillo, Sharon Lee Hopkins, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0184

    Defendant Was Not Authorized to File a Second Motion for a New Trial After the Grant of Her Motion for an Out-of-Time Appeal; Court Dismisses Appeal as Untimely

  • Flood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jennifer Leigh Parker, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0025

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Support Felony Murder Conviction; Verdict Form and Jury Charge Allowed for Jury's Proper Consideration of Murder Charges

  • Gatto et al. v. City of Statesboro et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-19
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Brian Terry, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Amanda Kay Seals, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Gilbert H. Deitch, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips, William Michael D'Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers LLC), Atlanta, George Brian Spears, (G. Brian Spears, P.C.), Atlanta, Charles Edwin Johnson, (Foy & Associates), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Read Gignilliat, John Campbell Stivarius, Jr., Tracy Lynn Glanton, (Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta,; Craig T. Jones, (Craig T. Jones, PC), Washington, Amicus Appellant; Seth Michael Friedman, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith), Atlanta, Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, Emily Clare Hirst, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G0651

    Court affirms that a municipality has sovereign immunity from claims for nuisance liability when the municipality does not own or control property where injuries occurred

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden, (Darden Law Firm), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Thomas Durden, Jr., Melissa Leigh Poole, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0132

    Unredacted Recording of 911 Call Properly Admitted at Trial Under Excited Utterance Exception to Hearsay Rule

  • Waller v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, William Donald Kelly, Jr., (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0276

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and vacates armed robbery conviction due to merger error.