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  • Hill, Kertscher & Wharton, LLP et al. v. Moody et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-27
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Alan Rogers, (NCR Corp.), Atlanta, Johannes S. Kingma, John Colquitt Rogers, (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas Vincent Chandler, Shaun P. Rooney, (Chandler Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Matthew D. Friedlander, Caroline Johnson Tanner, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1436

    Plaintiff in legal malpractice case waives attorney-client privilege with respect to communications with other lawyers that worked on the same matter.

  • Bamberg v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Andrew J. Ekonomou, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, Jan Kennedy, Thomas Edwars Buscemi, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1052

    Court affirms convictions of mother and son for murder of the son's ex-wife over their challenges to evidence and alleged trial court error

  • White v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Brown Dillon, (Brown & Gill, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, Elizabeth Morgan Kendrick, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1257

    Evidence That Stabbing Victim Was Involved in Altercation With Third Party Shortly Before He Was Killed Was Properly Excluded From Trial

  • Rich v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Earl White, Warner Robbins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1492

    Evidence Proved Kidnapping Offense; Defendant's Forced Movement Was Not 'Merely Incidental' to His Commission of Armed Robbery

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Betsey L. Tate, (Office of the Appellate Defender, Georgia Public Defender Council), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1432

    Evidence Regarding Investigator's Course of Conduct During Crime Investigation Was Not Admissible to Show Guilt

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  • McCluskey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Christopher Locke, (Locke Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Leigh Ellen Patterson, Luke Anthony Martin, Kayleigh Ann Carter, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1397

    No Third Degree Cruelty to Children Where Children Did Not See or Hear Defendant Shoot His Wife While They Were Nearby

  • Spence v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Victor Cornel Silverbach, (The Silverbach Group, LLC), Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Stephany Julissa Luttrell, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1334

    No Plain Error in Trial Court's Failure Sua Sponte to Instruct Jury on Defense of Accidental Death

  • Morrall v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Morrall, Trion, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Sandra G. Matson, Dorothy Vinson Hull, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1201

    Trial Counsel Could Reasonably Have Determined That Motion to Suppress In-Court Identification on Due Process Grounds Would Fail

  • Holmes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith, (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory W. Edwards, Melinda April Wynne, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1146

    Evidence Supported Trial Court's Decision to Deny Motion for Directed Verdict

  • Daddario v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-12-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Gerard Leipold, Brett Michael Willis, H. Bradford Morris, Jr., (Northeastern Circuit Public Defender's Office), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wanda Lynn Vance, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney's Office), Gainesville, Lee Darragh, (Hall County District Attorney's Office), Gainesville, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0684

    Pregnancy And Difficult Childbirth May Serve as Physical-Injury Element of Aggravated Child Molestation