Appellate wins are hard to come by. Last year, Leslie had the honor to work on an amicus “friend of the court” brief on behalf of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL) on an issue that comes up often in serious violent felony...
Leslie successfully argued that the Court of Appeals of Georgia should remand—send back—a Client’s case to the trial court because the trial court failed to conduct a proper analysis of the legal issues raised after the Client’s conviction. Client was represented by...
After three days of post-conviction hearings held in July 2021, Leslie convinced a trial court to grant her Client a new trial. The Court issued its order granting the motion in December 2021. In court, the Judge described the hearing, which required detailed...
In September 2023, Leslie won a hard-fought appeal for a Client whose first offender sentence was revoked after the term of his probation sentence ended. This case clarified a number of issues regarding first offender probation sentences, first offender revocations,...
