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  • Soles v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-08-04
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Cabe, (Mayo | Hill), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca Grist, (Solicitor General), Macon, Kristen Murphy, (Bibb County Soliciotr Generals Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0580

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Support Conviction for DUI/Less Safe to Drive; Offense Does Not Require Evidence of Chemical Analysis of Bodily Substances

  • Anderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-08-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, PC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joyette Holmes, Marietta, John Edwards, Flynn Broady, John Melvin, (District Attorney Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0452

    Court affirms convictions for vehicular homicide, serious injury by vehicle, and aggressive driving over defendant's multiple contentions of trial court evidentiary error

  • Jefferson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Anderson, (Atlanta Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Arnt, Herbert Franklin, (District Attorney), Lafayette, Michael Moeller, (LMJC District Attorney's Office), Summerville, Alan Smith, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Lafayette, for Appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0161

    Court affirms armed robbery conviction over defendant's objection to jury instruction, but vacates aggravated assault conviction and sentence due to merger error

  • Grace et al. v. Lowery et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-16
    Practice Area: Privacy
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Johnny Foster, Morton Forbes, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Savannah, Robert Marcovitch, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Thomas Nash, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Turner, (Savage, Turner, Pinckney & Savage), Savannah, Jeffrey Vaughan, (J. Scott Vaughan, P.C.), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0422

    Court reverses general jury verdict and award for defamation, negligent hiring, and invasion of privacy where plaintiffs failed to identify specific defamatory statement

  • McCurdy v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Crawford, (Crawford and Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Henry Syms, Jared Williams, (District Attorney's Office Augusta Judicial Circuit), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0540

    Court affirms convictions for rape and child molestation but vacates sentence and remands for merger of counts relating to possession of sexually explicit videos

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  • State v. Dowell

    Publication Date: 2021-07-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melinda Wynne, Gregory Edwards, (District Attorney's Office, Dougherty Judicial Cir), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall Sharp, (Sharp Georgia Law Firm), Smyrna, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0479

    Court rules that trial court did not err when it ordered a new trial on general grounds, but reverses order to the extent it was based on insufficient evidence of armed robbery

  • Daniel v. Bremen-Bowdon Investment, Company et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Perkins, (Perkins Studdard LLC), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Adam Grafton, (Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Lauren Julian Loeb, (State Board of Workers' Compensation), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A1764

    Court reverses denial of Worker's Compensation benefits and attorney fees where employee was injured while leaving workplace premises for a regularly scheduled break

  • Erickson v. Walker et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-06-29
    Practice Area: Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin O'Dell, Nicholas Booth, (O'Dell & O'Neal, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall Farmer, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, Brandon Moulard, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, Arnold Lizana, (Attorney Arnold J. Lizana III), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0023

    Court affirms summary judgment in a negligence case on the basis of causation and further states that school employees had official immunity from a lawsuit

  • Steedley v. Gilbreth

    Publication Date: 2021-06-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J Graddy, (Graddy Law LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Steedley, (Charles J. Steedley PC), Homerville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0356

    Trial Court Must Award Sole Physical and Legal Custody to Mother; Court Was Not Authorized to Enter Joint Custody Arrangement With Grandmother

  • Wallace v. Chandler et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Wiggins, (Attorney at Law), Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lawrence Stagg, (Attorney at Law), Ringgold, Michael Caldwell, (Stagg Law Firm, LLC), Ringgold, Enia Bean, Ringgold, Joshua Haynes, Gastonia, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0648

    Third Party Non-Relative Lacked Standing to Initiate Custody Proceedings Against Biological Parent