Atlanta, GA
Appeals Lawyer at Atlanta, GA
Practice Areas: Appeals, Criminal Defense, Administrative Law
OUTCOME: Reversal
A man was convicted of rape and sentenced to 25 years in prison. After investigating the case, we established that the State had violated Georgia's rules of evidence by providing evidence that other wi ... tnesses believed the victim, and found that juror had been talking to non-jurors about the case.
OUTCOME: Reversal
A man was convicted of rape and sentenced to 25 years in prison. After investigating the case, we established that the State had violated Georgia's rules of evidence by providing evidence that other wi ... tnesses believed the victim, and found that juror had been talking to non-jurors about the case.
OUTCOME: Reversal and release
A man was sentenced to life without parole in prison for cocaine possession. We established that he had been denied the right to counsel on his initial appeal, and then moved for modification of his se ... ntence as the trial court. He was released from prison the next day.
OUTCOME: From conviction to acquittal
My client was convicted of killing a woman who recklessly drove her car through a crowd of people attending a repast after a funeral. I reversed his conviction by establishing serious prosecutorial mis ... conduct and ineffective assistance of council. Afterward, I successfully moved the trial judge to grant my client immunity. After spending five years in prison, he is now acquitted. You can read about the case here: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5134
OUTCOME: Sentence reduction
My client was convicted of burning a woman with gasoline and then raping her. At the motion for new trial hearing, I successfully argued that he could not be sentenced to life without parole, resulting ... in a life with parole sentence.
OUTCOME: Murder conviction reversed
A woman was convicted of starving her child to death. Working with a team, I successfully argued that the trial court had failed to properly charge the jury, resulting in a reversal of the client's mur ... der conviction.
OUTCOME: Sentence reduction
A client was convicted of raping and murdering a woman and sentenced to life without parole. I argued that the trial court had considered details of previous convictions that were constitutionally unav ... ailable. As a result, the client was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
OUTCOME: Evidence in murder case suppressed
I successfully argued for the suppression of wiretap evidence in a high-profile murder case in front of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbR84_U3ljc ...
OUTCOME: From conviction to acquittal
A woman was accused of allowing two children to drown in the pool while she was on the phone. In my first argument at the Supreme Court of Georgia, she was acquitted of all charges.
OUTCOME: Acquittal
On the morning of trial, a lawyer in the Paulding County Public Defender's Office quit during jury selection. I was an emergency replacement. The judge gave me a week to prepare. Mid-way through the ro ... bbery trial, the State offered my client a sentence of two years, down from twenty. My client insisted on going to a verdict. Despite evidence that my client may have committed other robberies and video footage of his car at the scene, the jury acquitted him.
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