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Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 9 de diciembre de 2025
In the Matter of Je'nita Lane
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia aceptó la entrega voluntaria de la licencia de abogada de una letrada, lo que equivale a su inhabilitación, después de que admitiera haber manejado indebidamente fondos fiduciarios de clientes en dos casos que involucraban cuentas sobregiradas y un gravamen de Medicaid impago.
PER CURIAM. This disciplinary matter is before the Court on a petition for voluntary surrender of license filed by Je’Nita Lane (State Bar No. 865134) before the issuance of a formal complaint. See Bar Rule 4- 227(b)(2). Lane, who has been a member of the State Bar of Georgia since 2011, admits that, in two client matters, she violated Rules 1.3,...
Rule 1.15(II)(a) states in relevant part: “All funds held by a lawyer for a client and all funds held by a lawyer in any other fiduciary capacity shall be deposited in and administered from a trust account.” Rule 1.15(II)(b) states in relevant part: “No personal funds shall ever be deposited in a lawyer’s trust account, except that unearned lawyer’s fees...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 18 de marzo de 2025
Arnold v. Alexander
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia dictaminó que carece de 'jurisdicción original' para conocer directamente una petición de mandamus de un litigante indigente sin abogado que impugnaba las políticas de presentación de documentos de la Secretaría del Condado de Fulton, y envió el caso a la Corte de Apelaciones.
1 OCGA § 9-15-2 provides, in full: (a)(1) When any party, plaintiff or defendant, in any action the Clerk’s ministerial duty to file papers and that the policy violates his federal constitutional rights to equal protection, due process, and or proceeding held in any court in this state is unable to pay any deposit, fee, or other cost which is normally...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 4 de marzo de 2025
Riley v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Yathomas Riley por matar a su esposa frente a su hijo bebé, rechazando sus alegatos, presentados sin abogado, sobre un testigo en la sala, pruebas falsas y asistencia legal ineficaz.
Testimony given by ADT service technician Bryant Brown suggested that the gunshots likely occurred while Riley was present in the master bedroom and that he then checked the system throughout the night to view footage from the security cameras. A product called “ADT Pulse” gives customers the ability to monitor the security system themselves and keeps...
5 To establish a violation under Brady, the defendant must show that (1) the State, including any part of the prosecution team, possessed evidence favorable to the defendant; (2) the defendant did not possess the favorable evidence and could not obtain it himself with any reasonable diligence; (3) the State suppressed the favorable evidence; and (4) a...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 8 de abril de 2025
State v. Williams
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó una orden que concedió nuevos juicios a Jalontaye Cleveland y Courtney Williams, al determinar que las instrucciones del juez al jurado, que nombraban a tres testigos como cómplices, constituyeron un comentario indebido sobre la culpabilidad de los acusados.
(c) M&P Food Mart Collins testified that, on October 22, 2016, Williams was driving Cleveland and Collins around, and they “talk[ed] about 3 Collins testified that Cleveland went by the nickname “Jay” or “LoSo.” doing a robbery.”4 Ritesh Prajapati5 was working at the M&P Food Mart that day. According to Collins, Williams dropped them off at the store “after...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 22 de julio de 2025
In the Matter of Justin Allen Chin
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia inhabilitó al abogado Justin Allen Chin tras determinar que manejó indebidamente y a sabiendas fondos de clientes y descuidó a clientes en ocho casos de divorcio distintos, rechazando la recomendación de un funcionario de audiencias de imponer una suspensión más corta.
1. Procedural History Between May 31, 2023, and June 5, 2023, the State Bar filed eight formal complaints charging Chin with violations of Rules 1.2 (a) (a lawyer shall abide by a client’s decisions concerning the scope and objectives of representation and shall consult with the client as to the means by which they are to be pursued); 1.3 (a lawyer shall...
For SDBD No. 7704, the Special Master recounted that Chin represented the client in this disciplinary matter in a divorce action. The client sold the marital residence and, on April 13, 2021, $269,982.76 in proceeds from the sale were deposited into Chin’s IOLTA account. Between April and December 2021, Chin withdrew for his attorney fees $118,246.70 of the...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 24 de junio de 2025
Fuller v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato en grado de delito grave de una mujer del condado de Spalding por su papel en el tiroteo mortal que su hijo cometió contra un hombre en su habitación de hotel, pese a un voto disidente que consideró la evidencia demasiado débil.
Law enforcement officers secured the scene, began interviewing witnesses, and reviewed hotel surveillance videos. The trial court admitted the surveillance videos into evidence at trial, and the State played several portions of those videos for the jury, from several different camera angles. The surveillance videos showed that, at 3:17 a.m., about ten...
family members’ hotel rooms. When investigators spoke to Fuller immediately after the shooting, Fuller said that “someone came into the room and told them to give them all their stuff and that they were robbed.”3 Both Fuller and Frazer made statements to investigators that “an armed robbery occurred and that’s how [Reid] got shot.” Fuller did not tell...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 26 de agosto de 2025
Scales v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia negó la revisión del reclamo de un hombre sobre haber sido sujeto con un dispositivo de seguridad 'Band-it' durante su juicio por abuso sexual infantil, dejando en pie su condena mientras un magistrado concurrente advirtió a los jueces de primera instancia sobre las prácticas de seguridad en la sala.
LAGRUA, Justice, concurring. Trial court judges have a difficult job in many respects, but particularly, when it involves balancing the constitutional rights of a defendant and the presumption of innocence, while also ensuring that litigants, witnesses, juries, and the public are safe and secure in the courtroom. In an era of pervasive threats to judges and...
The specific facts of this case are addressed in the opinion of the Court of Appeals. What concerns me is that the testimony at the motion-for-new-trial hearing established, and the State does not now dispute, that use of the “Band-it” security device is controlled by the Supervisor of Court Services (which in this case was Lt. Richard Harrison with the...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 6 de mayo de 2025
In the Matter of Sanjay Patel
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia inhabilitó a Sanjay Patel después de que robara más de $235,000 en fondos de depósito en garantía de una operación de refinanciamiento inmobiliario y luego obstaculizara la investigación del Colegio de Abogados del Estado sobre su conducta.
The Special Master looked to the ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Discipline (“ABA Standards”) for guidance in determining the appropriate sanction in this matter. See In the Matter of Morse, 266 Ga. 652, 653 (470 SE2d 232) (1996). In this regard, the Special Master concluded that the duty implicated by Patel’s violations of Rule 1.15 (I) (c) is the duty...
321 Ga. 523 FINAL COPY S25Y0424. IN THE MATTER OF SANJAY PATEL.
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 16 de septiembre de 2025
In the Matter of Melvin Raines, II
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia inhabilitó al abogado Melvin Raines, II después de que usara el pago de $5,000 de un cliente para su uso personal, mintiera al respecto y repetidamente no se presentara a audiencias ni se comunicara con otros dos clientes.
(a) Factual Findings (i) State Disciplinary Board Docket (“SDBD”) No. 7774 Based on the factual allegations in the State Bar’s complaint— which were deemed admitted by virtue of Raines’s default—the Special Master recounted that, in December 2020, a mother retained Raines to represent her son in a criminal matter. On December 7, 2020, Raines filed a motion...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 16 de septiembre de 2025
Jester v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena de Jquantae Jester por asesinato con agravantes en el homicidio de Myra Smith Parlier, al determinar que cualquier error al admitir pruebas de un incidente previo de estrangulamiento fue inofensivo dada la prueba abrumadora de su culpabilidad.
Responding investigators transported the woman’s body to the GBI, which later identified the woman as Parlier. The medical examiner who performed Parlier’s autopsy concluded that there were abrasions on her neck that were consistent with someone pulling the dog leash around her neck. The examiner also testified that there was moisture inside the trash bag...
Here, Jester has not met his burden of showing that the omission of an instruction on the requirement of confession corroboration likely affected the outcome of his trial. “Although a confession alone cannot sustain a conviction, no specific manner of corroboration of the confession is required, and corroboration in any particular is sufficient.” Hooper v....
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 24 de junio de 2025
Guy v. Housing Authority of the City of Augusta
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia anuló un fallo que protegía a la Autoridad de Vivienda de Augusta de la demanda de una víctima de un tiroteo, sosteniendo que los tribunales inferiores usaron la prueba legal equivocada para decidir si la autoridad tiene inmunidad soberana como instrumentalidad de la ciudad.
The General Assembly in 1937 passed the Housing Authorities Law, OCGA § 8-3-1 et seq. (“the Act”), declaring that “[i]n each city and in each county of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the ‘housing authority’ of the city or county[,]” with the caveat that any “such authority shall not transact any business or...
321 Ga. 873 FINAL COPY S24G1346. GUY v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUGUSTA.
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 28 de enero de 2025
Wasserman v. Franklin County
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia dictaminó que la teoría legal federal de la 'legitimación de terceros', que permite a alguien demandar haciendo valer los derechos de otra persona, no existe conforme a la Constitución de Georgia. Una propietaria no pudo demandar por el presunto maltrato a un vecino sin hacer valer sus propios derechos.
(i) Private Rights We have explained before that private rights are “those belong- ing to an individual as an individual.” SCV, 315 Ga. at 47 (2) (a) (citing 3 Blackstone, Commentaries *2). See also 1 Blackstone, Com- mentaries *119 (also describing private rights as “absolute” rights that “appertain[ed] and belong[ed] to particular men[ ] merely as...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 18 de febrero de 2025
In the Matter of Chadrick A. Mance
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia aceptó la petición de reprimenda pública de un abogado del área de Fulton después de que este adjuntara a un escrito judicial una orden simulada con una imagen recortada y pegada de la firma de un juez.
7 Although the lawyers in Detling and Smart had no prior disciplinary history when a review panel reprimand was imposed for their Rule 1.1 violations, and Mance does have a prior confidential disciplinary infraction, we nonetheless conclude that a public reprimand is the appropriate discipline given the unique facts and circumstances in this case. See In...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 4 de noviembre de 2025
Stitts v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Tianvye Stitts por el tiroteo de 2020 contra Darcy Jones en un club nocturno de Atlanta, rechazando reclamos sobre pruebas insuficientes, instrucciones al jurado faltantes y asistencia legal ineficaz.
1. The trial evidence Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, the trial evidence showed the following. On the night of November 13, 2020, Stitts drove his girlfriend, Shaneka Soucy, to work at Bodega, a nightclub in South Fulton. Soucy said that she typically worked from about 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. Stitts drove Soucy’s Jeep...
later, she saw people running around the club on account of a shooting inside the club. Kasseem Gibson, a security guard who was working at the front door, testified that he heard three gunshots in quick succession, and when he turned towards the back of the club, he heard another two gunshots and then saw a person later identified as Jones collapse as he...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 18 de febrero de 2025
State v. Islam
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia dictaminó que cuando un juez de primera instancia concede una moción para devolver bienes incautados en un registro, los bienes quedan excluidos automáticamente del juicio por ley, aunque la orden nunca use la palabra 'excluir.'
The most natural and reasonable understanding of OCGA § 17- 5-30 is the one that the State proposes: an order granting a motion brought under this statute, regardless of nomenclature, is an order “excluding evidence.” When such a motion is granted, the statute requires that property “shall be restored, unless otherwise subject to lawful detention, and it...
the seized property at issue is excluded by operation of law, and a trial court has no discretion to order otherwise. See Republic Claims Svc. Co. v. Hoyal, 264 Ga. 127, 128 (441 SE2d 755) (1994) (construing OCGA § 9-2-60 (b), which states that “[a]ny action . . . in which no written order is taken for a period of five years shall automatically stand...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 12 de agosto de 2025
In THE MATTER OF DOMINIQUE MARC HENRI LEMOINE (Two Cases)
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia inhabilitó de forma permanente a un abogado que tomó dinero en fideicomiso de clientes y terceros para uso personal y para pagarle a otros clientes, rechazando sus afirmaciones de que su estado mental justificaba solo una suspensión.
Additionally, in November 2021, while Lemoine was representing the Clients in the IRS dispute, they requested that Lemoine use a portion of the $175,000 they had wired to his account to pay the property taxes on a home they owned in Florida.2 The Clients sent Lemoine a copy of a tax bill they had received and requested that he use their funds to pay the...
Lemoine an email acknowledging receipt of the $5,000, requesting that he send the remainder of the $30,000, and renewing their request for Lemoine to use the funds they had wired in relation to the IRS dispute to pay the property taxes. Lemoine responded, sending them a copy of a check dated January 14, 2022, for $5,615.63 made payable to the county tax...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 10 de junio de 2025
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE v. ETERNAL VIGILANCE ACTION, INC. (Two Cases)
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia dictaminó que la mayoría de las reglas electorales de 2024 adoptadas por la Junta Estatal de Elecciones no estaban debidamente autorizadas por la ley estatal, al tiempo que limitó severamente quién puede demandar para impugnar tales reglas.
Any absentee ballot drop location, other than the United States Postal Service or authorized and defined drop box under Georgia Law, that receives absentee ballots shall require an absentee ballot form with written documentation, including absentee ballot elector’s name, signature and photo ID of the person delivering the absentee ballot, and approved...
(v) Drop Box Surveillance Rule (Rule 183-1-14-.02 (19)). OCGA § 21-2-382 (c) (1) requires the board of registrars or the absentee ballot clerk to “establish at least one drop box as a means for absentee by mail electors to deliver their ballots[.]” Drop boxes are to be located “at the office of the board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk or inside...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 28 de enero de 2025
Garcia-Solis v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato y la sentencia de cadena perpetua sin libertad condicional de un hombre que disparó y mató a un agente del condado de Hall durante una ola de delitos, rechazando sus alegatos sobre insuficiencia de pruebas, sede del juicio y su edad al momento de los delitos.
Garcia-Solis filed a timely motion for new trial, which he amended through new counsel. After holding an evidentiary hearing on the motion for new trial, the trial court denied the motion on November 4, 2022. Garcia-Solis filed a timely notice of appeal to this Court, and the case was docketed to the term beginning in December 2024 and submitted for a...
While investigating the pawnshop burglaries on the morning of July 6, law enforcement officers learned that several automobile dealerships had also been broken into overnight, including Los Plebes Auto Sales, Texano Auto Sales, Texas Trucks and Autos, and Eddie’s Auto Sales.4 Francisco Cuella, the owner of Los Plebes Auto Sales, testified that, when he...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 15 de octubre de 2025
HOMEWOOD ASSOCIATES INC. v. UNIFIED GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó el cargo por servicios pluviales del condado de Athens-Clarke como una tarifa y no como un impuesto, rechazando un segundo desafío de Homewood Village y otros propietarios y confirmando que adeudan cargos vencidos.
governments could focus on crafting charges like those at issue here to conform to uniformity, rather than to try to take them outside all constitutional protection altogether. I am authorized to state that Justice Bethel joins in this concurrence.
The Stormwater Utility Ordinance imposes a stormwater utility charge, which the ordinance calls a “fee,” on all owners of developed property in the County. The stormwater utility charge has three components: (1) a “base charge,” (2) a “quantity charge,” and (3) a “quality charge.” The base charge is intended to cover the annual administrative and management...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 9 de diciembre de 2025
Frison v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Xaiver Frison, dictaminando que el video de vigilancia que contradecía su afirmación y la de su hermana de que la víctima tenía un arma permitió que el jurado rechazara su argumento de legítima defensa.
Some time later, Jordan tried to evict Marks and Bearden, and in November of 2022, Bearden and Marks began moving out. But as of November 9, 2022, many of their belongings — and their dog, Dilly — remained. When Bearden and Marks returned to Jordan’s apart- ment on the night of November 9, the locks had been changed, and they had to get a locksmith to let...
Jordan testified that, after she and Frison ran back inside with Marks and Bearden following, she took a gun out of her bag because 4 Jordan denied removing the dog from the apartment. Bearden testified that she never learned what happened to Dilly. Marks was “chasing [her] with a gun” but she did not know what happened with the gun she took out of her bag....
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