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  • Byrd v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Randall Scarborough, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Mathew Eli Plott, (Office of the Fulton County Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0254

    Trial Court Conducted Proper Analysis in Concluding Defendant's Peremptory Jury Strikes Were Race-Based

  • Thomas v. Caldwell, Warden

    Publication Date: 2022-06-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Marlin Thomas, Wrightsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Whitener Hamilton, (Shepard, Plunkett, Hamilton & Boudreaux, LLP), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1020

    Court reverses habeas court's dismissal of an application for certificate of probable cause to appeal because the petition addressed new issues that arose in re-sentencing

  • Perkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0158

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence, trial court error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Butler v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
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    Case Number: S22A0317

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to evidence, claims of trial court error, and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sara S Becker, (Conaway & Strickler), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, 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: S22A0086

    Any Error in Admitting Medical Examiner's Testimony Regarding Blood Spatter Evidence Was Harmless

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  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah Lorraine Leslie, (The Leslie Group, LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, William Wright Banks, Jr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cedartown, for appellee; Jill Anderson Travis, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, James C. Bonner, Jr., (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S21A1270

    Criminal Defendant Alleging Deprivation of Right of Appeal Due to Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Must Seek Habeas Relief

  • Martinez-Arias v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Bradford Morris, Jr., Matthew Gerard Leipold, (Northeastern Circuit Public Defender's Office), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, Anna Victoria Fowler, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney's Office), Gainesville, for appellee; Katie Anne Skeehan, (The Sonoda Law Firm), Atlanta, Peter J. Wpsnik, (Wosnik Law, LLC), Monroe, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0150

    Court determines that testimony about characteristics of an ethnic group was not relevant and should not have been admitted, but error in admitting it was harmless

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1242

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Evidence of Guns and Ammunition Found When Defendant Was Arrested

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-02-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky J. Johnson, (Coffee Correctional Facility), Nicholls, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Alane Penn, James Aaron Dunn, (Forsyth County District Attorney's Office), Cumming, for appellee; Thomas Vernon Burch, Courtney Hogan, Kirstiana Perryman, (UGA School of Law), Athens, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0673

    Court of Appeals Used Wrong Analysis in its Review of Merger Claims Arising From Multiple Convictions for Same Crime

  • Hines v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    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, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Juliana Sleeper, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta,for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1079

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and malice murder where defendant challenged testimony from a witness that was not identified at least ten days before trial