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  • Bernard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn Kleinrock, (Law Office of Lynn M. Kleinrock), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Christopher DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1709

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Failing to Object When Police Investigator Introduced Prior Consistent Statements of Co-Defendant Who Had Already Testified

  • Westmoreland v. Walgreen Co

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Evidence | Premises Liability
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore Lackland, (Lackland & Associates LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold Hilton, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Terrance Sullivan, (Insley & Race, LLC), Atlanta, Pearson Cunningham, Asya Morgan, (Hall Booth Smith), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1753

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of a retail store on plaintiff's claim for premises liability after she was injured by glass from bottles that dropped onto a floor

  • Neely v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara Mattes, (Barbara Mattes Attorney at Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Jared Williams, (District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1216

    Court reverses trial court's denial of motion to suppress evidence seized during a traffic stop because the stop was unreasonably prolonged with no suspicion of a crime

  • Echols v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Jones, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit), Columbus, Veronica Hansis, (Columbus Consolidated Government Office of the District Attorney), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1712

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault and aggravated battery over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence

  • Moody v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Forrest Pearce, (Pearce, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Tristan Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1108

    Court affirms conviction for assault and battery over defendant's challenge to admission of other-act evidence, ineffective assistance, and due process violation

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  • Gayton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Jefferson, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Penn, Courtney Moore, (Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0939

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence collected after defendant's seizure by officers was prolonged beyond a reasonable time.

  • Vallejo v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keegan Gary, Hunter Rodgers, (Paulding Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Donovan, Anthony Williams, Matthew Rollins, (Paulding Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1110

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Excluding Evidence of a Prior Allegation of Molestation Made by the Victim; Child Molestation Conviction Affirmed

  • Spillers v. Brinson et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-03
    Practice Area: Evidence | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cox, (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, Jerry Lumley, (Lumley and Harper, LLC.), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Lawson, Robert Tuggle, (Daniel, Lawson, Tuggle & Jerles, LLP), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0837

    Court affirms denial of summary judgment motion where lay opinion testimony established an issue of material fact as to the authenticity of an insurance beneficiary form

  • George v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-03
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric C. Crawford, (Crawford & Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randal Matthew McGinley, Jacqueline Payne Fletcher, Kristen Nicole Smith, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0429

    Court of Appeals Erred in Considering the Relevance of Evidence Alone as Justifying Its Seizure Outside the Scope of a Search Warrant

  • Stafford v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Richard Benjamin Caplan, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0767

    If Any, in Admitting Evidence of Earlier Crimes Was Harmless