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  • Green v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Anderson, (Attorney at Law), Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Smith, (District Attorney), Jefferson, Andrew Brill, (Barrow County District Attorney’s Office), Winder, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1683

    Court affirms defendant's conviction for attempted kidnapping but reverses convictions for attempt to entice a child and simple assault due to insufficient evidence

  • Logan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Withers, (Withers Law Firm PC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Breedon, Daphne Totten, (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney), Springfield, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1661

    Court affirms re-indictment of pharmacist on drug charges, denying his challenges based on double jeopardy and statute of limitations, and rejecting claims of prosecutorial misconduct

  • Olsen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Clark Palmer, Donald Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. Cross, Sherry Boston, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office DeKalb County Courthouse), Decatur, Lenny Krick, (Assistant District Attorney-Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1506

    Court reverses police officer's conviction related to use of force policy in a case involving a fatal shooting, but notes that officer may be retried for aggravated assault

  • Marquita Jordan v. H. J. Russell & Company et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law | Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Rogers, William D’Antignac, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Lynch, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, Skyler McDonald, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Tampa, for appellee; Jackson Dial, Shanndor McClain, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC), Atlanta, Grant Schnell, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A1387

    Court rules in favor of apartment owners in fatal shooting case, applying landlord-tenant statute because shooting occurred inside an apartment over which defendants had relinquished possession

  • The State v. Huynh

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Brooks, (Office of the Solicitor General of Clayton County), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nam Nguyen, (Nguyen & Pham, LLC), Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1326

    Court dismisses State's appeal to trial court's acquittal of a defendant who had been charged with an improper lane change, citing its lack of jurisdiction over the appeal

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  • Sullivan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Withers, (Withers Law Firm PC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ian Heap, Daphne Totten, (District Attorney’s Office, Ogeechee Judicial Circuit), Springfield, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1600

    Court reverses revocation of suspended sentence and remands for resentencing because defendant's failure to attend drug treatment was a violation of a general and not a special condition

  • Freedom Heights, LP v. Lowndes County Board of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Preston, Kayla Barnes, (Coleman Talley LLP), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter Elliott, William Elliott, (Elliott Blackburn & Gooding PC), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1103

    Court affirms partial summary judgment in favor of county tax assessors in valuation dispute over rent-restricted apartment complex, finding that application of an income approach was inapplicable

  • Mabala v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Starosto, (Star Law PC), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anna Johnson, (Attorney at Law), Cartersville, Samir Patel, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit - District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0791

    Court affirms defendant's convictions on nine counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, but vacates and remands for resentencing on three counts that should have merged

  • Columbus Water Works v. Dunn, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-09
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Mining and Resources
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Clark, Thomas Gristina, (Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford), Columbus, Lewis Jones, John Fortuna, (Jones Fortuna LP), Decatur, Elizabeth Holden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Robin Leigh, Christopher Held, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Stacy Shelton, (Us Environmemtal Protection Agency), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Brown, April Lipscomb, (Southern Environmental Law Center), Atlanta, Kevin Jeselnik, (Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Inc.), Atlanta, for other party; Marlee Santos, (Crowell & Moring LLP), Irvine, for AM.
    Case Number: A23A0857

    Court reverses summary determination in favor of Environmental Protection Division on an issue involving water discharge and remands for an evidentiary hearing over a challenged permit

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Jones, Gabriel Justus, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1128

    Court reverses conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon because seizure of that firearm occurred during an improper warrantless search of a home