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  • Clark v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Kay Jefferson, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gerald Lee Henderson, (Office of the District Attorney Gwinnett Judical Circuit), Lawrenceville, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, Christopher Anders George, (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0950

    Trial Court Properly Applied Totality-of-Circumstances Test in Determining That Juvenile Waived Miranda Rights

  • Eaker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Scott Williams, (Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Williams LLC), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Cliff Head, Shannon Glover Wallace, Lara Ashley Snow, (Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0875

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and failure to consider new evidence

  • Drennon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, 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, Virginia Lee Davis, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0511

    Trial Court Record Not Adequate For Review of Appellant's Claim of Denial of Right to Be Present During All of Trial

  • Lewis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, III, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Richard Benjamin Caplan, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0757

    No Showing Made That Photo Lineup Was Unduly Suggestive or That Witness Was Under Influence of Drugs

  • The State v Burton

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Patrick Dean, Shalena Cook Jones, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Martin Gregory Hilliard, (Martin G. Hilliard PC), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0684

    State Failed to Show 16-Year-Old Defendant Knowingly and Voluntarily Waived His Miranda Rights

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  • Albury v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0616

    Trial Court Conducted Proper Rule 303 Analysis Before Admitting Post-Incision Autopsy Photograph of Scalp Injury

  • Ellington v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-08-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan O. Oden, (Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, Michael Steven Webb. Kenneth Wayne Sheppard, (The Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Mathew Eli Plott, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0477

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of error over limits to cross-examination

  • Slosberg v. Giller, et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-29
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick Skip Sugarman, Matthew Greer Hawk, (Sugarman Law, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tyler Charles Dixon, (Raiford & Dixon, LLC), Atlanta, Leah Ward Sears, Sasha Nina Greenberg, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Timothy Kyle King, (Hodges, McEachern & King), Peachtree City, Nikola R. Djuric, (Djuric Spratt P.A.), Atlanta for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G1226

    No-Contest Clause Did Not Bar Undue-Influence Claim Against Trust Instrument

  • Domingue et al. v. Ford Motor Company

    Publication Date: 2022-07-19
    Practice Area: Evidence | Personal Injury | Products Liability
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig A. Webster, (Webster Law Group, Inc.), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Roger Boorman, Philip Andrew Henderson, Evan E. Smith, IV, (Watson Spence LLP), Atlanta, Paul Frederich Malek, Donald Thomas, (Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP), Birmingham, Michael W. Eady, (Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP), Austin, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., Rory A. Weeks, (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Alyssa Bernadette Baskam, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Richard B. North, Jr., Alex G. Pisciarino, (Nelson Mullins Rilet & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, Jonathan R. Friedman, Gary J. Toman, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22Q0279

    Georgia's Seatbelt Statute Did Not Preclude Vehicle Manufacturer From Presenting Evidence of Seatbelt as Part of Restraint System

  • Copeland v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-18
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Richard Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), 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, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0591

    Evidence Supported Jury's Conclusion That Witness Was Not Accomplice And Her Testimony Did Not Require Corroboration