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  • McKie v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of the Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Helen Virginia Peters Pott, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee. D. Victor Reynolds, Amelia Greeson Pray, John Stuart Melvin, John Richard Edwards, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Michael Scott Carlson, (Georgia Bureau of Investigation), Decatur, Gregg M. Jacobson, (King & Spalding, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1007

    Court affirms firearm possession conviction that had been based on circumstantial evidence of a prior felony conviction

  • Adams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel J. Sliger, (McDonald & Cody, LLC), Cornelia, Robert W. Chestney, (Chestney & Sullivan), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Christopher Heck, Stephanie D. Woodard, (Hall County Solicitor General's Office), Gainesville, for appellee. Michael Edwin George, (Weaver Law Firm), Gainesville, for other party.
    Case Number: S18G0699

    Convictions affirmed when DUI appellant did not preserve objections for appeal and failed to transmit a full record to support his appeal

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Perry Waters, (Attorney at Law), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Vanessa Therese Sassano, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Patrick Bibler, George Herbert Hartwig, III, Gregory Warren Winters, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0419

    Uncertainty and Conflicts in Evidence Did Not Preclude Determination That Evidence Was Sufficient To Support Verdict

  • Georgia Dept. of Labor v. Mcconnell et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-17
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen M. Pacious, Loretta L. Pinkston-Pope, Angela Ellen Cusimano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott A. Schweber, (Schweber Green Law Group), Atlanta, Jefferson Madden Allen, (Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Roy E. Barnes, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Kenneth S. Canfield, (Doffermyre Shields Canfield Knowles), Atlanta, David J. Worley, (Evangelista Worley, LLC), Atlanta, Amy E. Keller, (Dicello Levitt Gutzler LLC), Chicago, Norman E. Siegel, Barrett J. Vahle, (Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP), Kansas City, Andrew N. Friedman, (Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC), Washington,, James Pizzirusso, (Hausfeld LLP), Washington, John A. Yanchunis, (Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group), Tampa, Jason Ryan Doss, (The Doss Firm, LLC), Marietta, Eric H. Gibbs, (Girard Gibbs LLP), Oakland, Ariana J. Tadler, (Milberg Tadler Phillips Grossman LLP), New York, William H. Murphy, III, (Murphy Falcon & Murphy), Baltimore, Rodney Keith Strong, (Griffin & Strong, PC), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S18G1316

    Department of Labor has no sovereign immunity for plaintiff's tort claims, but the plaintiff's complaint failed to state a valid claim.

  • Gooden v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence W. Daniel, (Lawrence W. Daniel, PC), Atlanta, James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deah Brittny Warren, Ryan Reese Leonard, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0173

    Conflict Trialsw Counsel's Skeletal Pleading Established That Defendant's Claim of Ineffective Assistance of Plea Counsel Had Already Been Raised And Adjudicated

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  • Luckie v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2019-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore, Meagan Hurley, Ezra Addison Gantt, (Mercer Law School), Macon, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0100

    Court affirms denial of habeus petition over drug defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Koonce v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    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: S19A0012

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's multiple claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • The State v. Rosenbaum et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring, D. Victor Reynolds, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Daysha D'Anya Young, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, James Luther Wright, (Flint Circuit District Attorneys Office), McDonough for appellant.
    for defendant: Corinne M. Mull, (The Mull Law Firm), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1090

    Court affirms order suppressing evidence from electronic devices due to delays in procuring a search warrant

  • Beasley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, PC.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1252

    No Ineffectiveness of Counsel For Failing to Maintain Objection Against Application of Habitation Defense to Homicide Victim

  • The State v. Hanna

    Publication Date: 2019-02-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephany Julissa Luttrell, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, (Fulton County Public Defender), Atlanta, Zanele Elaine Ngubeni, Margaret Elizabeth Bullard, (Office of The Public Defender, Atlanta Judicial Circuit), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1559

    Court Vacates Sentence After Trial Court Attempts to Impose Impermissibly Lenient Ten-Year Sentence on Woman Convicted of Felony Murder