Archive for December, 2009


Georgia criminal defense attorney wins suppression of client’s involuntary confession

The Court of Appeals of Georgia recently upheld a trial court’s ruling which suppressed a defendant’s statement due to being involuntary. The court reasoned that the interviewing officer told that the defendant that he had committed theft by taking rather than armed robbery which induced the defendant to make the statement. In State v. Klepper, the defendant, Klepper, was indicted for armed robbery in Fulton County. On the day in question, Klepper was suspected of committing an armed robbery in a ...

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Criminal defense lawyers win speedy trial motions on appeal

The Court of Appeals of Georgia recently reversed the denials of motions to dismiss based on speedy trial grounds in two different cases. The court found that the 35 and 36 month delays were both presumptively prejudicial and violated a defendant’s right to a speedy trial under the four-part balancing test. In Davis v. State, the defendant, Davis, was arrested for kidnapping with bodily injury, burglary, armed robbery and aggravated assault in March of 2005. 17 months later he filed a ...

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