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  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-15
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Western Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0092

    Defendant Was Prejudiced by Admission of Evidence That Was Needlessly Cumulative and Highly Prejudicial

  • Washington v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Carter Armond, (The Armond Firm, LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0322

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Object to Detective's Testimony, Surveillance Recordings, and Jury Instructions

  • Early v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
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    Case Number: S22A0265

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Admitting Jail Video Recording into Evidence

  • Seth Rouzan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Jared Tolton Williams, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0199

    Court vacates denial of a petition for an out-ot-time appeal to convictions for malice murder and other crimes, and remands with instructions to dismiss the motion

  • Ward v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katie Alice Hingerty Borodin, (The Hingerty Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Eliot Jay Abt, (ABT Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Allison Thatcher Mauldin, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Greensboro, Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1309

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

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  • Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company v. City of College Park et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seth Michael Friedman, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karen Eleice Woodward, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Norcross, Alwyn Robert Fredericks, (Cash, Krugler & Fredericks, LLC), Atlanta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, Alisha I. Wyatt-Bullman, Reginald Bernard McClendon, Joshua Stanley Foster, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Joseph M. Colwell, (Butler Wooten & Peak LLP), Columbus, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0482

    City did not waive sovereign immunity claims for amounts above liability insurance limits even though it purchased insurance for higher amounts

  • Ward v. Carlton

    Publication Date: 2022-02-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis Alan Carlton, (Cobb County Adult Detention Center), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1088

    Habeus court erred when it concluded that trial court erred in revoking defendant's probation while he was still incarcerated and before probationary period began

  • Saxton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Leroy Johnson, (Office of ALJ, PC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0059

    Any Error in Allowing Prosecution Witness to Testify Regarding Direction of Bullet Travel Was Harmless

  • Murray v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Richard Murray, (Baldwin State Prison), Hardwick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Tristan Wade Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1098

    Defendant's Disrespect For Trial Court And Judicial Process Did Not Excuse Court's Failure to Consider New Trial Motion on Merits

  • Rockdale County v. U.S. Enterprises, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Land Use and Planning | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Joseph Linkous, (Hall County Law Department), Gainesville, Mirza Qader Ali Baig, (M. Qader A. Baig & Associates, LLC), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy E. Barnes, Benjamin Robert Rosichan, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Richard A. Carothers, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0718

    County Ordinance's Definition of Prohibited "Truck Stop" Was Not Unconstitutionally Vague