• DeVanna v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gerald Lee Henderson, Jeffrey Paul Kwiatkowski, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0990

    Malice Murder Defendant Fails to Show Prejudice From Trial Counsel's Jury Instruction on Self-Defense Claim

  • Harper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen H Brouse, (Brouse Law), Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Ellen Patterson, Morgan Birdsong Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney’s Office), Rome, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0813

    Trial Court Did Not Err When it Failed to Instruct Court Reporter to Transcribe the Entirety of the Jury Selection Proceedings, Including Voir Dire

  • Parrott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-10-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Keegan Christian Gary, (Paulding County Public Defender's Office), Dallas, 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: S21A0753

    I Defendant Did Not Receive Multiple Punishments For Same Offense Simply by Being Resentenced to Correct Void Sentence

  • Collins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-10-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joyette Marie Holmes, John Richard Edwards, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0627

    Provision of Accomplice-Corroboration Jury Instruction Did Not Preclude Instruction on Witness's Unknowing Participation

  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn Haddad, (Haddad Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0568

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's challenge to trial court's denial of admission of cumulative evidence regarding victim's violent behavior

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  • The State v. Gilmore

    Publication Date: 2021-09-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luke Anthony Martin, Leigh Ellen Patterson, Morgan Birdsong Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Ross Hamrick, Sean Justin Lowe, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Rome, for Appellee.

    Case Number: S20G1430

    Court reverses denial of admission of a video showing a drug purchase by a now-deceased confidential information, finding no Confrontation Clause violation

  • Sims v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Henry Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0874

    Evidence Supported Jury's Inference That Crime Took Place in County Where Defendant Was Tried

  • IDI Logistics, LLC v. The City of Douglasville et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn M. Zickert, Dennis John Webb, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell, & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, Joseph Alexander Brock, (Smith, Gambrell, & Russell, LLP), Alpharetta, Joseph Hodgson Fowler, (Hartley, Rowe & Fowler), Douglasville, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Theodore Paul Meeker, (Sumner Meeker, LLC), Newnan, for appellee; Joshua Adam Scoggins, (Miles Hansford & Tallant, LLC), Cumming, Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S21D1267

    Court denies petitioner's application for a discretionary appeal regarding the rejection of the petitioner's rezoning application to a City

  • Lewis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    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, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Smyrna, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0250

    Defendant Did Not Clearly Invoke Right to Counsel During Jailhouse Phone Conversation With Police Detective

  • Rios v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cathy Morris Alterman, (Law Office of Cathy Morris Alterman), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel J. Porter, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0243

    Double Jeopardy Did Not Bar Retrial Where Manifest Necessity Forced Mistrial