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  • Scott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0598

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to effectiveness of counsel and jury instructions.

  • Evans v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith, (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clifford Paul Bowden, (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0508

    Court affirms convictions for murder and conspiracy to commit murder over defendant's challenges to evidence and counsel's performance

  • Strozier v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace Carter Clayton, II, (Jones, Morrison & Womack, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Sassano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Richard Edwards, Jesse David Evans, John Stuart Melvin, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0790

    Trial Court Violated Law Of The Case Rule When It Resentenced on Convictions Supreme Court Had Found To Be Vacated by Operation of Law

  • Broxton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Z Brown, (The Moore Brown Law Group, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0118

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions of over objections of gang member defendants

  • Nordahl v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-07-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce Steven Harvey, (Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard, Jr., Marc A. Mallon, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0947

    Defendant's recidivist conviction affirmed over a Sixth Amendment challenge.

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  • Rowland v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura D. Hogue, Susan Dalton Raymond, (Hogue, Hogue, Fitzgerald & Griffin), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Louie Craig Fraser, Leslie Loraine Ray, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0289

    Defendant's Possible Drug Impairment Did Not Invalidate His Pre-Interview Waiver of Miranda Rights

  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith, (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0440

    Defendant Was Not Prejudiced By Trial Counsel's Failure to Object to Admission of Sentencing Information in Prior Juvenile Cases

  • Bradley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-18
    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, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Burke Olivia Doherty, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0384

    Court Affirms in Part and Vacates in Part Trial Court Order Denying Murder's Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea Where Murder Claimed That Trial Court Gave Vague Explanation of Consequences of Pleading Guilty but Record Showed That He Was Informed of Range of Possible Sentences

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tobe Christopher Karrh, (Middle Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Louie Craig Fraser, Kelli Maria Adams, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0346

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and other alleged trial court errors

  • Dozier et al. v. Watson

    Publication Date: 2019-05-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Troy R. Millikan, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0027

    Habeus court failed to properly apply prejudice standard in granting a habeus writ due to ineffective assistance of counsel