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  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Allen Hoort, Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Ruth M. Pawlak, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0962

    Mistrial Properly Denied After Trial Court Gave Curative Instruction Following Witness's Prejudicial Testimony

  • Montgomery v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1302

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of error on recharging the jury and not applying the thirteenth juror standard

  • Wright v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, Richard M. Darden, (Darden Law Firm), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Elemuel Barnhill, John Andrew Rumker, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1117

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of trial court character evidence and jury instruction error

  • Turner v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keri Foster Thompson, Hardwick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John H. Cranford, Jr., Jessica L. Williams-Vickery, (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1022

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and firearm possession over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence.

  • Esposito v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcia Adele Widder, Akiva Hibel Freidlin, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Sabrina Dawn Graham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, Allison Thatcher Mauldin, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Greensboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0104

    Trial Courts Are Bound to Follow Precedents of Court of Appeals

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  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Jennifer Leigh Parker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0425

    Statute of Limitations Barred Prosecution For Influencing Witness

  • Reese v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, Leslie Loraine Ray, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0521

    Trial Court Erred Prejudicially in Denying Defendant's Request to Give Modified Instruction on Affirmative Defenses

  • Watts v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Wesley Bryant, (Federal Defender Program Inc), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0754

    Police Interrogators Did Not Induce Statement By Impliedly Promising Confession Would Remove Threat of Death Penalty

  • Stanley v. Patterson et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-07
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig T. Jones, (Craig T. Jones, PC), Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacquita Laverne Parks, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, William James Atkins, (Edmond, Lindsay & Atkins, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0405

    Quasi-Judicial Immunity Did Not Protect Court Administrator and Managers From Suit For Error That Led to Plaintiff's Arrest and Incarceration

  • Dugar v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-08-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Meredith Anne Gardial, (Grisham, Poole, & Carlile, P.C.), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0707

    Defendant Was Not Unduly Influenced by Trial Judge's Remarks To Waive Right to Jury Trial