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Cedra Mayfield is a litigation reporter with the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. She can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @cedramayfield
December 7, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"I've seen lawyers do a lot of things to try to get off a trial calendar, but I don't think I've ever seen a lawyer try to get a judge arrested or placed in jail to get off a trial," said defense counsel S. Lester Tate III.
By Cedra Mayfield
4 minute read
December 6, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"It seems pretty clear to me that it would be a violation of the double jeopardy clause to allow [the state] to argue something that they lost at the first trial," Donald F. Samuel told the Daily Report on Wednesday.
By Cedra Mayfield
5 minute read
December 5, 2023 | Daily Report Online
This year, five judges faced new or ongoing probes for their alleged commission of dozens of ethics violations.
By Cedra Mayfield
7 minute read
December 4, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"There's nothing more satisfying than winning big against a defendant who deserves to lose," said plaintiff co-counsel Jeb Butler of Butler Kahn in Atlanta. "I just wish it hadn't taken four years."
By Cedra Mayfield
8 minute read
December 1, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"I know how difficult it is to try to navigate our 'systems' and dispel people's judgments in order to survive," said Zanele Ngubeni, incoming Gideon's Promise executive director.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
November 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"I feel like I was, in essence, convicted guilty until proven innocent," testified Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson.
By Cedra Mayfield
9 minute read
November 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia Director Courtney Veal called a court clerk, lawyer, respondent and neighbor to the stand during ethics proceedings Tuesday.
By Cedra Mayfield
7 minute read
November 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online
The high court's oral arguments scheduled for Dec. 5 have been rescheduled to Jan. 9 and 10.
By Cedra Mayfield
1 minute read
November 27, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"[T]he Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's ruling on the official-capacity claims on the ground that the public duty doctrine barred all of [the appellant's] claims without considering the threshold jurisdictional question of whether sovereign immunity barred [the appellant's] claims against [the appellee] in her official capacity," the Supreme Court of Georgia held.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
November 22, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"I tried the case for five days and on the fifth day, Friday the 13th, I get COVID," said defense litigator Page Powell Jr. "I didn't know what to do. I've never had this before."
By Cedra Mayfield
8 minute read
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