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  • Moore v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus Moore, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Henry Wayne Syms, Jr., (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0115

    Court reverses denial of motion for out-of-time appeal and remands case for a factual inquiry into the merits of the defendant's motion

  • Department of Public Safety v. Ragsdale

    Publication Date: 2020-04-08
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lee Bunner, Kathleen M. Pacious, Loretta L. Pinkston-Pope, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward Victor Cornel Silverbach, (The Silverbach Group, LLC), Kennesaw, Charles Madden Cork, III, (Law Offices of Charles M. Cork, III), Decatur, for appellee. Terry Eugene Williams, (Williams Morris & Waymire, LLC), Buford, for other party.
    Case Number: S19G0422

    Tort Claims Act's 12-Month Ante Litem Notice Period Is Not Subject to Tolling Under OCGA §9-3-99 When the Tort at Issue Arises From a Crime

  • London v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Wayne Sheppard, (Kenneth W. Sheppard, P.C.), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Harry Steven Ruth, Shannon Elysia Hodder, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1637

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's challenge to evidence and contentions of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Eric Phillips, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Aslean Zachary Eaglin, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1330

    Defendant's Trial Counsel Was Not Deficient Despite Defendant's Claim That His Counsel Failed to Discredit a Jailhouse Informant

  • Deloach v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1299

    Record Did Not Support Trial Court's Conclusion Prosecution Knowingly Failed to Correct Witness's Material, False Testimony

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  • Morgan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Lynn Tyo, Brandon A. Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, 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, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1261

    Court affirms denial of new trial motion of defendant found guilty but mentally ill in the drowning death of her infant daughters.

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, John B. Merchant, III, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Richard Edwards, Jesse David Evans, D. Victor Reynolds, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1572

    Law Enforcement Agency Is Not Required to Provide a Deaf Person With an Interpreter Until the Deaf Person 'Is Arrested'

  • Flowers v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Earl White, Warner Robbins, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Jason Michael Martin, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1151

    Court affirms murder and assault convictions over defendant's evidentiary challenge to admission of prior acts evidence and autopsy photograph.

  • The State v. Stephens et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gregory W. Edwards, Harold Ronald Moroz, Melinda April Wynne, (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, appellant.
    for defendant: Ricky Daniel Collum, (The Collum Firm, P.C.), Moultrie, Ingrid Patrice Driskell, Albany, Troy Edward Golden, Alexander S. Merrill, (Dougherty Circuit Public Defender's Office), Albany, Johnny Wayne Knight, (John W. Knight, Attorney at Law), Albany, Sandra Anne Satchell, (Georgia Public Defender Office), Albany, Roberto Shawn Hoover, Douglasville, Benjamin David Harrell, (Harrell and Lewis, LLC), Camilla, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1079

    Court affirms denial of admission of deceased witness's testimonial statement because defendants had no opportunity to cross examine the witness

  • McGuire v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Rust Knox, Douglas Patrick Smith, (Towaliga Judicial Circuit Public Defenders Office), Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Lang Adams, Richard G. Milam, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney's Office), Barnesville, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1215

    Court affirms malice murder conviction and rejects defendant's alternative hypothesis on voluntary manslaughter