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  • Everett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Horne Petrey, (Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Sarah Jane Thomas, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Mario Kladis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0396

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's claims of jury instruction error on justification and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Richardson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dillon McConnell, (The Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Ruth M. Pawlak, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0179

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contentions of improper witness testimony bolstering and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Durden v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, Ryan C. Malone, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Mary Catherine Norman, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stacey Sherrard Jackson, Cynthia Dawn McDonald, (Chatahoochee Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0270

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to a Detective's testimony and claims of jury instruction error, but vacates armed robbery conviction due to merger doctrine error

  • In the Matter of Joel David Myers.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-17
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Charles Wilson, John Allen Earles, (Georgia Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, Russell David Willard, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24Z0598

    Court grants disbarred attorney's application for readmission following rehabilitation

  • Hassan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Bruce Steven Harvey, (Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Pareesa Hanna Amjadi, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0026

    Court affirms convictions in a gang-related drive-by shooting case over defendant's challenge to admission of evidence about another related murder and alleged jury instruction error.

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  • Howard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Gary Drew Bergman, (Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia), Morrow, Stacey Sherrard Jackson, Tina G. Stanford, (Chatahoochee Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0105

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and jury selection error

  • In the Matter of Shaquandra A. Woods.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren Raymond Hinds, (Warren R. Hinds, P.C.), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24Y0566

    Court accepts attorney's voluntarily petition for suspension of her law licenses pending her appeal of a criminal conviction for conspiracy to commit wire fraud

  • In the Matter of Andrea Jo Anne David-Vega.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    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, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David S. Lipscomb, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, Christine Anne Koehler, (Law Office of Christine Koehler), Lawrenceville, for appellee; Adam Marshall Hames, (The Hames Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S24Y0099

    Court rejects Special Master's recommendation for a suspension and instead disbars attorney for serious professional misconduct, including fabrication of evidence and false statements

  • Baker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, James Travis Griffin, (Hogue Hogue Fitzgerald & Griffin, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Herbert Hartwig, Rodrigo L. Silva, William Marshall Kendall, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0860

    Court reverses malice murder conviction due to admission into evidence of a rap music video showing the defendant with a gun, which the court deemed to be more prejudicial than probative

  • Crary v. Clautice et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. DeLugas, (National Association Of Parents, Inc. d/b/a Parentsusa), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Jeffrey Rubin, (Rubin Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0004

    Court dismisses challenge to constitutionality of grandparent visitation statute and affirms denial of motions for contempt and for fees and expenses that appellant had sought from grandparents