Georgia CommonsCourt opinions
Georgia Supreme Court decisions with plain-language summaries. Browse by year and case type, or search by case name.
In the Matter of David Godley Rigdon
The Supreme Court of Georgia rejected an attorney's request to serve a suspension rather than disbarment after he pleaded guilty to eight drug felonies, saying the record lacked enough facts to judge whether that punishment fit the misconduct.
In the Matter of Richard M. Colbert
The Supreme Court of Georgia accepted a Florida-convicted lawyer's request to give up his Georgia law license, a move the court treats as equivalent to disbarment.
Perdomo v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Hamlet Perdomo's convictions for felony murder and fourteen other crimes from a 2010 crime spree, rejecting his claim that the evidence against him was insufficient.
State v. STEPHENS
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that a dead eyewitness's police statement cannot be used against multiple murder defendants because they never had a chance to cross-examine him, upholding the trial court's exclusion of the statement.
Swims v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Walker County man's murder conviction, ruling that a witness's brief mention of his out-of-state jail time did not require a mistrial.
White v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the murder conviction and life without parole sentence of a Houston County teenager who confessed to killing a friend as part of a suicide pact, finding no error in admitting his statements or in the sentencing standard used.