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  • Sullivan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Withers, (Withers Law Firm PC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ian Heap, Daphne Totten, (District Attorney’s Office, Ogeechee Judicial Circuit), Springfield, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1600

    Court reverses revocation of suspended sentence and remands for resentencing because defendant's failure to attend drug treatment was a violation of a general and not a special condition

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Jones, Bryan Roy, (Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1751

    Court affirms convictions for rape, aggravated Assault, and false Imprisonment over defendant's contentions of Inconsistent verdicts, insufficient evidence, jury instruction error, and improper closing

  • Jaccaro Cross v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Towne, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1446

    Court affirms multiple convictions in an armed robbery case over defendant's challenges involving identification testimony by co-defendant and another witness

  • Poole v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Chappell, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, Leah Mayo, (Rome District Attorney’s Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1318

    Court affirms convictions for theft by taking and exploitation of a disabled adult over defendant's contention that the two convictions were mutually exclusive

  • Graham v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jody Peterman, (Attorney at Law), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michelle Harrison, Bradfield Shealy, (District Attorney Southern Judicial Circuit), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1377

    Court affirms conviction for incest and statutory rape over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel, emphasizing the strength of DNA evidence against him

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  • Bell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Crawford, (Crawford and Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randal McGinley, Alexandra Stone, (Newton County District Attorney’s Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1215

    Court vacates its previous ruling and reverses convictions in child death case following the Georgia Supreme Court's ruling which reversed that previous opinion.

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Coggins, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rodrigo Silva, William Kendall, (District Attorney’s Office, Houston Judicial Circuit), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1258

    Court affirms school bus driver's conviction for vehicular homicide over her contentions of juror misconduct regarding the jurors' receipts of extrajudicial information

  • The State v. Shropshire

    Publication Date: 2024-01-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ruth M. Pawlak, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Vance Patterson, (The Law Office of Brian V. Patterson, LLC), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0310

    Court clarifies legal standards for merger analysis in cases involving separate charges of child molestation and aggravated child molestation

  • Gates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Foster Kramer, (Kramer & Pine), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stuart H. Hunter Patray, Daphne Jarriel Totten, Keith A. McIntyre, (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1158

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of his medical records that were seized pursuant to an ex parte court order, stating that the seizure was a privacy violation

  • Lee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, III, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Frederick Lewis, Tina G. Stanford, Cynthia Dawn McDonald, Stacey Sherrard Jackson, (Chatahoochee Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1097

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes and rejects defendant's contentions of trial court's erroneous denial of motions for mistrial and ineffective assistance of counsel