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  • 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

  • Richardson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Brown Dillon, (Brown & Gill, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Mark Geller, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Clark Ellison Candler, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0306

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's contentions of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • London v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    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

  • The State v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shannon Glover Wallace, Zachary Holman Smith, Cliff Head, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bernard Stephen Brody, (Brody Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellee. Layla Hinton Zon, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Covington, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S19G0005

    Court reverses appellate court's dismissal of aggravated sexual battery conviction notwithstanding trial court's erroneous jury instruction.

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Danny Wells, (Flint Circuit Public Defender's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (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: S19A1588

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Hearsay Testimony, Which Was Admissible Under the Necessity Exception to the Hearsay Rule

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  • Naples v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry M. Hazen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rachelle L. Carnesale, Shannon Glover Wallace, Cliff Head, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1571

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting 'Other Acts' Evidence in Trial Convicting Defendant of Murdering a 17-Month-Old Child

  • In the Matter of Melvin T. Johnson.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-04
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melvin T. Johnson, (The Action Johnson Law Firm), Lithonia, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, LaVonda Rochelle DeWitt, Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S20Y0257

    Court verifies disbarment of attorney found to have committed multiple instances of misconduct

  • Thomas v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, III, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1503

    Jury Was Authorized to Reject Defendant's Claim of Self-Defense and Find Him Guilty of Malice Murder

  • The State v. Lane

    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, Destiny H. Bryant, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1424

    Georgia Courts Considering Whether a Criminal Defendant Is Entitled to a New Trial Should Consider the Prejudicial Effect of Trial Court Errors and Deficient Counsel Performance

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    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