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  • Norris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1166

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Impeach One of Several Physicians Who Described Child's History of Injuries

  • Evans v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    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, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0893

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Seek Admission of Responding Police Officer's Body Camera Videos

  • Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy Dodd Roth, (Augusta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kelly J. Weathers, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1003

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failure to Investigate and Make Arguments Relating to Murder Defendant's Mental Health

  • The State v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2023-03-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Kelsey Kolb Devitto, Christopher Mark DeNe, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: LeAnne Chancey Hicks, (The Chancey Law Firm, P.C.), Braselton, David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0967

    Search Warrant For "AnyAnd All" Data on Cell Phone Violated Fourth Amendment Particularity Requirement

  • Sillah v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, Tristan Wade Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0939

    No Affirmative Evidence was Offered to Show Sentencing Court Misapplied Law In Imposing LWOP Sentence on Juvenile Offender

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  • The State v. Arroyo

    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine L. Thompson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Steven Eric Phillips, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0593

    State Could Not Appeal Trial Court's Grant of Motion to Suppress Issued After Jury Was Impaneled

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Santos Fleischman, Noah Howard Pines, (Ross & Pines, LLC), 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, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0836

    Warrant For Cell-Site Location Information Need Not Particularly Describe Physical Location of Data Sought

  • Clark v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    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

  • Hightower v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-09
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica M. Sully, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, Stephen Randall Scarborough, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Savannah, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., Ruth M. Pawlak, Simone Nathania Hylton, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0870

    COVID-19 Emergency Was Manifest Necessity Justifying Declaring Mistrial Over Defendant's Objection

  • Cruz v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-12-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Jefferson, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cliff Head, Shannon Wallace, (District Attorney), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1701

    Probationer Consented to Search of His Tablet, Computer, and Disks