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  • The State v. Shalgheen

    Publication Date: 2023-12-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicole Fegan, (Fegan Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1737

    Court reverses exclusion of other acts evidence in a rape and sexual assault criminal trial

  • Mohr v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sydney Strickland, (Strickland & Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Jared Williams, (District Attorney’s Office Augusta Judicial Circuit), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1336

    Court affirms aggravated assault conviction despite defendant's claims of evidentiary errors and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Donnelly, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0846

    Trial Counsel Did Not Render Constitutionally Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Object to Multiple Portions of Lead Detective Testimony

  • The State v. Black

    Publication Date: 2023-10-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Marietta, Cliff Head, Alana Driscoll, Kelly Nugent-Chavis, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lawrence Zimmerman, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Matthew Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0939

    Court reverses evidence suppression order to the extent it had limited admission of evidence seized from warranted search of a cell phone to communications between a defendant and a rape victim

  • Kennebrew v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sara S Becker, (Sara Stewart Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Sheila Ann Ross, Peter J. Skandalakis, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0530

    Previous Testimony of Deceased Witness Properly Admitted Where Defendant Had Adequate Opportunity to Cross-Examine

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  • Salvesen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard W Anderson, III, (Truluck Thmason LLC), Greenville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0433

    Murder Defendant Was Not Unduly Prejudiced by Admission of Gruesome Photograph of Victim's Decomposed Body

  • Demuro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Aletha Claire Farley, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0647

    Court Reporter's Difficulty Transcribing Court's Verbal Instructions Insufficient to Establish Instructions Were Not Complete

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anita Reynolds Howard, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0595

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Not Objecting to Witness's Testimony That Defendant Hit and Threatened Her After He Committed Crime

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    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, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0599

    Prior Armed Robbery Incidents Properly Admitted to Prove Intent Element in Current Armed Robbery Charge

  • Blazek v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Thomas, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lisamarie Bristol, Joseph Morales, (Gwinnett County Solicitor General), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0949

    Court affirms trial court ruling to admit results if a breath test in a DUI case over defendant's objection that he had not freely and voluntarily consented to the test.