• Borroto v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Barnhill, Alexander Markowich, Jacob Kirkland, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Waycross, Marilyn Bennett, (District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0600

    Defense Counsel's Testimony Supported Trial Court's Finding That Waiver of Jury Trial Was Made Knowingly and Intelligently

  • Tatum v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John McArthur, (McArthur, McArthur & Overend LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: David White, (District Attorney), Hartwell, Michael Coveney, (District Attorney’s Office of the Northern Judicial Circuit), Danielsville, Jeffrey Lee, (Elbert County District Attorney’s Office), Elberton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0526

    Probable Cause Existed For Search of Cell Phone Possessed by Person Officer Encountered in Vicinity of Peeping Tom Activity

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Jones, (Leslie Spornberger Jones LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Smith, Gregory Wagner, (District Attorney), Jefferson, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0598

    Guilty Plea Was Not Result of Undue Coercion Arising From Protective Custody/Isolation Prior to Entry of Plea

  • The State et al. v. SASS Group, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Tina Michelle Piper, Cristina Maria Correia, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Daniel Church, (The Church Law Firm, LLC), Roswell, Page Anthony Pate, (Pate, Johnson & Church, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Andrew (Andy) J. Welch, III, Warren Michael Tillery, Brandon Filson Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough, John Elwin Stell, Jr., (Smith, , Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Winder, for Neutral Amicus.

    Case Number: S22A1243

    Suit For Declaratory Relief Naming Both State and County District Attorney as Defendants Was Barred by Sovereign Immunity

  • Taylor v. The Devereux Foundation, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Constitutional Law | Damages | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Timothy Rogers, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips William Michael D’Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr., Hilary Wayne Hunter, (Isenberg & Hewitt, PC), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Farish Barr, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, Jeff Sandman, (Webb, Daniel, Friedlander, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Maxwell Kent Thelen, Andrew Steven Ashby, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Ross Warren Bergethon, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Matthew J. Rubenstein, (Jones Day), Minneapolis, Letitia A. McDonald, Robert B. Friedman, Erin Munger, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Anna Sumner Pieschel, Philip S. Goldberg, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, David Christopher Hanson, (The Hanson Firm), Atlanta, Anthony J. Sebok, (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), New York John C.P. Goldberg, (Harvard Law School), Cambridge, for Amicus Appellee; Rosser Adams Malone, (Malone Law Office), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, Rory A. Weeks, (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Jeffrey R. White, (Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C.), Washington, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, James D. Meadows, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Jacob Edward Daly, Elissa Blache Haynes, P. Michael Freed, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.

    Case Number: S22A1060

    Statutory Cap on Punitive Damages Does Not Violate State Constitutional Right to Jury Trial

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  • 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

  • Hood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-29
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lela Julia Acker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0326

    Record Supported Trial Court's Finding That Plea Counsel Fully Advised Client as to Future Parole Eligibility

  • Monroe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-29
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine Morgan Mason, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jennifer Rue Smith, Chase Landon Studstill, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Nashville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A1116

    Misconduct of Two Jurors Did Not Require Mistrial

  • Mitchell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Brouse, (Brouse Law), Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Arnt, Bruce Roberts, (District Attorney), LaFayette, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1521

    Defendant Not Prejudiced by Prosecution Witness's False Testimony That He Had Made No Agreement With the State to Testify

  • The State v. Ray

    Publication Date: 2023-03-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Cliff Head, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, Lara Snow, (Cherokee County D.A.’S Office), Canton, Shannon Wallace, (District Attorney), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amanda Speights, (Speights Law, PC), Canton, Scott Poole, (Grisham & Poole, P.C.), Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1741

    Defendant Suffered Prejudice As Result of Trial Counsel's Failure to Seek Dismissal of Indictment on Speedy Trial Grounds