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  • Henderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Vance Patterson, (The Law Office of Brian V. Patterson, LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0559

    Court affirms convictions of jointly-tried defendants for malice murder and other crimes over their multiple challenges and contentions of trial court error

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eliot Jay Abt, (ABT Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Katie Alice Hingerty Borodin, (The Hingerty Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rindi L. Harbeson, William Patrick Doupé, Terry L. Lloyd, (Toombs Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0518

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, juror selection error, and ineffective assistance

  • Hatcher v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    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, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Laurie Elyse Baio, (Office of The District Attorney, Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Billy Joe Nelson, Jr., Donna Renee Sims, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0465

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contention of ineffective assistance of counsel over failure to object to expert testimony

  • Moulder v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0508

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • In the Interest of A. H., a Child.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani T. Willis, Mathew Eli Plott, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Paige Andrea Pastor, Tashe Ann Dunlap, Cody Jeremiah Jung, (Fulton County Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G1035

    Court vacates its prior grant of a writ of certiorari and denies a petition for an appeal to a juvenile court's order sealing the records of a juvenile who was adjudicated delinquent

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  • Miller et al. v. Golden Peanut Company, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-22
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leland Hiatt Kynes, (Kynes Law, LLC), Atlanta, James Lory King, II, (The King Firm), Tifton, Bree Owens Sullivan, (The Sullivan Firm LLC), Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Adam Caplan, Timothy Brandon Waddell, (Caplan Cobb LLP), Atlanta, Danielle Corin Le Jeune, (Cozen O’Connor), Atlanta, Tia C. Ghattas, (Cozen O’Connor), Chicago,, Josh M. Greenbaum, (Cozen O’Connor), Philadelphia, Steven J. Kyle, William Randal Bryant, (Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Michael Scott Carlson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Adam Robert Abbate, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22G0905

    Court rules that expert testimony from an investigating officer in an auto accident case is subject to the same Rule 702 analysis as testimony from other expert witnesses

  • Smith v. Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-22
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S22C1252

    Court declines to grant certiorari in appeals over an issue involving the doctrine of primary jurisdiction and whether a matter should be referred to an administrative agency

  • Owens v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0607

    Failure to Merge Felony Murder Count Based on Unlawful Possession of Firearm Into Voluntary Manslaughter Verdict Was Not Error

  • Whittaker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., Matthew William Moore, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney), LaFayette, Chris Allen Arnt, (Superior Court Judge-LMJC), Trenton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0613

    Evidence of Defendant's Brutal and Excessive Attacks Supported Malice Murder Conviction

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Leroy Whitman, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0628

    Prosecutor's Allegedly Improper Reference to Defendant's Post-Arrest Silence Did Not Harm Defense