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  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Richard King, (SK Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth A. Baker, Constance Monique Harris, Marie Greene Broder, (Griffin Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0436

    Crime-Scene Video Did Not Support Defendant's Self-Defense Claim

  • Basulto v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Richard Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0733

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and aggravated assault over defendant's contentions that trial court erred by failing to remove a juror who withheld information

  • The State v. Brinkley

    Publication Date: 2023-07-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Scott Carlson, Bruce Patilloch Dutcher, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Juliana Sleeper, Burke Olivia Doherty, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stacy Susanne Levy, (Stacy S. Levy and Associates), Lawrenceville, Richard William Marks, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, Stephen Randall Scarborough, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee; Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S23A0507

    Court vacates motion to exclude evidence because trial court misapplied the appropriate Rule 403 standard, and remands for application of correct standard

  • Florida Rock Industries, Inc. v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-23
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Mining and Resources
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, William Clay Massey, Shannon Nicole Vreeland, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amy Bryant Cowan, Dana Kristin Maine, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22C1102

    Court denies petition for certiorari filed by a mining company seeking review of the denial of two applications for conditional use permits.

  • Ward v. Medina

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ronald Edwards Daniels, (Daniels Taylor Law LLC), Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Chei-Ming Chen, (Steven C. Chen PC), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0264

    Court affirms grant of habeus relief to defendant who involuntarily pled guilty to armed robbery on the basis of affirmative misrepresentations

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  • Moody v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Morrison, (The Morrison Firm), Atlanta, Mark Aaron Loudon-Brown, Michael Boland Admirand, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Burke Olivia Doherty, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee; Anna Marie Arceneaux, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S23P0046

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes and a sentence of death over defendant's multiple challenges and in view of statutory requirements for the death penalty

  • Session v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-05-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Syrop, Allen Rust Knox, (Paulding Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Dallas, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (J. Ryan Brown Law LLC), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anthony Brett Williams, Matthew Wayne Rollins, (Paulding County District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0022

    Court affirms conviction for failing to register as a sex offender based on acts conducted in another state

  • Saylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-05-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Ruth Towne, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0208

    Defendant Failed to Show Joint Trial With Other Defendants Would Be So Prejudicial As to Warrant Separate Trial

  • Nundra v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0043

    No Error in Allowing Prosecutor to Compare Defendant With Sociopaths and Serial Killers During Closing Argument

  • Behl v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    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, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bonnie Lowe Jones, Shalena Cook Jones, Bryan Michael Roy, Timothy Patrick Dean, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0377

    Incarcerated Pro Se Defendant Failed to Preserve Issue of Alleged Denial of Access to Digital Discovery