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  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Miller, (Attorney at Law), Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anna Johnson, Samir Patel, Erle Newton, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit - District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0533

    Court affirms conviction in child molestation case and rejects defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; over failure to object to jury's consideration of notes written by defendant

  • Reeves et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David King, Paul Grote, (Burkhalter Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa McMullen, Marvin Dikeman, (Webb Zschunke Neary & Dikeman, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0286

    Court affirms directed verdict in favor of insurance company in a dispute over a lawsuit limitation period, finding that insured party filed the lawsuit past a one-year limit in the insurance contract

  • Hewett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Adams, (Office of the District Attorney, Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Jackson, Dorothy Hull, (Assistant District Attorney), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0157

    Court affirms child molestation and sexual battery convictions over defendant's challenges regarding sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and other errors

  • Jordan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A0397

    Court affirms entry of nolle prosequi order to charges of Influencing a witness and rejects defendant's speedy trial claim, which had been made on the basis of constitutional rights

  • Anderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Goldberg, (The Law Office of Ben Goldberg, LLC), Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Flynn Broady, Linda Dunikoski, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0358

    Court affirms convictions for rape and related charges over defendant's challenges of juror's compromise, ineffective assistance of counsel, and insufficient evidence

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  • Farmer v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rahmaan Bowick, (Augusta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Augusta, Jay Kim, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Larry Smith, Jared Williams, (District Attorney’s Office Augusta Judicial Circuit), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1677

    Court reverses denial of motion to suppress evidence in a burglary case, highlighting the limits of police authority in encounters and searches

  • Patrick et al. v. Kingston

    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben Brodhead, Ashley Fournet, Michael Arndt, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Harrison, Jackson Griner, (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, for appellee; Robert Gardner, (Attorney at Law), Winder, Brian Hansen, (Kutak Rock LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A1527

    Court reverses trial court's order enforcing a settlement in a fatal car accident case because the defendant's acceptance did not comply in full with the pre-lawsuit settlement offer

  • Barker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cashawn Barker, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sonya Chachere-Compton, (Attorney at Law), Douglasville, Jacob Taylor, William Smith, (Douglas County Solicitor General’s Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1501

    Court affirms conviction for lane violation and rejects defendant's statute of limitations challenge, but vacates and remands with directions for the trial court to perform a proper speedy trial analysis

  • The State v. Middleton

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Higgins, Benjamin Gephardt, (District Attorney’s Office for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, Kingsland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leo Kight, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office), Woodbine, Brian Tyrone, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Jesup, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0422

    On remand and direction from the Georgia Supreme Court, the court vacated its prior judgment and remanded for clarification of an officer's jurisdiction in traffic stop evidence suppression case

  • The State v. Yearwood-Cabbel

    Publication Date: 2024-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A23A1728

    Court affirms motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant where neither the challenger nor the evidence was named in the warrant itself