Atlanta, GA
Appeals Lawyer at Atlanta, GA
Practice Areas: Appeals, Criminal Defense ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Gwinnett County Defendant challenged his conviction for armed robbery based on the fact that a magistrate judge, specially appointed to preside over Dorsey's case, presided over his trial, in violation ... of his rights under the Georgia Constitution and the Georgia Code's rules for appointing substitute judges. The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed.
OUTCOME: Affirmed in part, Reversed in part
Defendant appealed his convictions on 87 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy based on a number of arguments, including the claims that his failure to use GAAP financing in his busines ... s was not sufficient evidence to show his intent to defraud, that the government had obtained evidence in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights when it obtained evidence which it later used against him during a civil SEC investigation and that the District Court's instruction regarding the definition of a Ponzi scheme had constructively amended the indictment. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions, but reversed the sentence and remanded for further proceedings.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Appeal of denial of petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus for Petitioner who accidentally killed another child during after school fistfight. Petitioner argued that punishing him as an adult without first ... giving him a transfer hearing from juvenile court was cruel and unusual punishment, as well as a violation of his right to due process, that pre-trial publicity regarding the Columbine massacre affected his case so as to prejudice his rights and that Sandstrom error by trial court caused the jury to infer an essential element of the crime of murder in convicting defendant. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of the writ.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Gwinnett County Defendant convicted of aggravated assault challenged his conviction based on a confusing jury instruction given by the trial court. The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. ...
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Mentally deficient 15-year-old Fulton County Defendant challenged his convictions for murder and armed robbery on a number of grounds, including that police had obtained inculpatory statements from him ... without allowing him to consult with a parent or an attorney. Georgia Supreme Court affirmed convictions.
OUTCOME: Reversed
Richmond County Defendant appealed his conviction for murder based on a number of grounds, including the state's use of prior arrests and misdemeanor convictions in its cross-examination of him before ... he had introduced any character evidence on his own behalf. The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the conviction.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Defendant appealed his conviction in the Southern District of West Virginia for conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute based on argument that government's evidence at trial showed mu ... ltiple, not single, conspiracies. Fourth Circuit affirmed conviction.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Clarke County Defendant challenged Court's mandatory imposition of mandatory minimum sentence for her cocaine trafficking conviction, based on provision in Georgia Code which authorized trial judges to ... probate all or part of any sentence it imposed. The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed, with Judge Anne Elizabeth Barnes dissenting and Georgia Supreme Court denied certiorari.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Fulton County Defendant appealed his aggravated battery conviction based on his claim that he could not be convicted as a party to a criminal act without including that allegation in the indictment and ... because he lawyer was ineffective in encouraging him to give an inculpatory statement to police when he was a suspect in the case. The Georgia Court of Appeals granted a motion to strike the state's brief, but affirmed the conviction and the Georgia Supreme Court denied cert.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Gwinnett County Defendant, a Mexican national, challenged his conviction for voluntary manslaughter based on the the trial court's failure to exclude certain statements he made to police prior to the M ... exican consulate being notified of his arrest, as well as certain statements made by the state about the impact of the victim's death upon his family. Noting that the trial court erred in not excluding the state's victim impact statements from its closing argument, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed.
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