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  • Blash v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (The Appellate Division - Georgia Public Defender Council), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ronald Edwards Daniels, (Daniels Law LLC), Eastman, Kelli Maria Adams, Timothy Grady Vaughn, (Oconee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Eastman, for other party.
    Case Number: S23A1096

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes and corrects sentencing error in response to defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Floyd v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), St. Atlanta, Jason Michael McLendon, (McLendon Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Randal Matthew McGinley, Bailey Rachel Simkoff, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1042

    Court reverses conviction for felony murder due to ineffective assistance of defendant's trial counsel relating to a jury instruction on self-defense and felon-in-possession of a firearm

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Katie Borodin, Eliot Abt, (The Abt Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Bruce Harvey, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tuttle Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorneys Office), Eatonton, Christian May, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit), Greensboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1317

    Court affirms conviction for drug trafficking over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of trial counsel

  • Stinson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelsey Wiley, (Wiley Defense, P.C.), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Penn, (GA Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit), Cumming, Courtney Moore, (Forsyth County District Attorney's Office), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1320

    Court affirms conviction for attempted child molestation ove defendant's claims of erroneous denial of a general; demurrer to an improper indictment and improper admission of a confession

  • Newton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler Conklin, (Conklin Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Marietta, Cliff Head, Rachel Ashe, (Cherokee County Solicitor Generals Office), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1768

    Court affirms convictions in a domestic violence case over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and an incorrect jury charge

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  • Oladunni v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ibrahim Oladunni, (Hancock State Prison), Sparta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elaine Thompson, Fani Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1679

    Court affirms denial of defendant's motion to withdraw a guilty plea and in arrest of judgment, but remands for correction of a sentencing error in an incident involving firearms

  • Barker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cashawn Barker, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sonya Chachere-Compton, (Attorney at Law), Douglasville, Jacob Taylor, William Smith, (Douglas County Solicitor General’s Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1501

    Court affirms conviction for lane violation and rejects defendant's statute of limitations challenge, but vacates and remands with directions for the trial court to perform a proper speedy trial analysis

  • The State v. Middleton

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Higgins, Benjamin Gephardt, (District Attorney’s Office for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, Kingsland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leo Kight, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office), Woodbine, Brian Tyrone, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Jesup, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0422

    On remand and direction from the Georgia Supreme Court, the court vacated its prior judgment and remanded for clarification of an officer's jurisdiction in traffic stop evidence suppression case

  • The State v. Yearwood-Cabbel

    Publication Date: 2024-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A23A1728

    Court affirms motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant where neither the challenger nor the evidence was named in the warrant itself

  • Tracie Underwood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristin C. Moore Waller, (Epps, Holloway, Deloach & Hoipkemier), Watkinsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Najjar, James Bradley Smith, (Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0714

    Court vacates its writ of certiorari on defendant's appeal to convictions for drug trafficking and other crimes and rejects defendant's challenge to denial of her motion to suppress evidence