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  • Scoggins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H Jones, (David H. Jones LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Eric Christopher Peters, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rosemary M. Greene, Whitney Anne Law, (District Attorney’s Office of the Cherokee Judicial Circuit), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0894

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

  • Bates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Henry Frier, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Mathew Eli Plott, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0881

    Court affirms convictions of three co-defendants in a shooting death over their contentions of insufficient evidence, improper admission of certain evidence, and challenges to jury instructions

  • Waters v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell Rocky Adams, (Office of the Public Defender), Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Robert Brandon Faircloth, Louie Craig Fraser, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0893

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's claims of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel as top a potential insanity defense

  • Scott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Allison Thatcher Mauldin, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, Jeff Preston Burks, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Madison, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0861

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's claims of improper admission of a custodial interview and hearsay evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Chambliss v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jonathan Lang Adams, Carolee Reed Jordan, Jessica Brooke Haygood, Dorothy Vinson Hull, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0802

    Court affirms felony murder conviction ove defendant's claims of insufficient evidence, rejection of self-defense claims, error in jury instructions, and ineffective assistance of counsel

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  • Clements v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ivars Lacis, (Lacis Law, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Chelsea Sharonlyn-Clyde Harvey, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Harold Alvin Buckler, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, Lee Darragh, Kelley Martin Robertson, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0857

    Court affirms felony and malice murder convictions in the shooting death of a deputy sheriff, rejecting all challenges from co-defendants in a consolidated appeal.

  • In the Matter of Carl Lawrence Collins.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-15
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl Lawrence Collins, (Law Office of Carl Collins III), Southfield, for appellee; Michael J Blakely, Jr., (The Blakely Firm), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y1064

    Court accepts lawyer's petition for voluntary suspension of his law license pending his appeal of criminal convictions for filing false tax returns

  • In the Matter of W. McCall Calhoun, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-15
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta,, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Clarence Evans, Jr., (Evans & Rhodes, LLC), Cartersville, for appellee; LaRae Dixon Moore, (Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford PC), Columbus, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y1160

    Court suspends attorney law license pending appeal of his felony and misdemeanor convictions related to his participation in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

  • In the Matter of Cory Howerton Fleming.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Pendarvis, (Pendarvis Law Offices PC), Beaufort, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0970

    Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of his law license in a disciplinary matter relating to representation of a client in a wrongful death action against Alexander Murdaugh

  • Bray et al. v. Watkins

    Publication Date: 2023-12-14
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Wayne Hendrix, Michael A. Sullivan, (Finch McCranie, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Terry Eugene Williams, Jason Christopher Waymire, (Williams Morris & Waymire), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0836

    Court grants petition for a writ of certiorari, noting that sovereign immunity is a jurisdictional issue that must be resolved before a court addresses the merits of a case.