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About Curtis Miller
Curtis W. Miller is Of Counsel at Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys, recognized for his knowledge of criminal law. He began his career in the Public Defender's Office in Athens, Georgia, and also represented defendants through the Georgia Indigent Defense Council. A native Atlantan and Stonecrest resident for over 30 years, he graduated from Duke University (B.S., 1976) and the University of Georgia (J.D., 1979). He was in private practice for many years before being appointed as a Magistrate in DeKalb County by Governor Nathan Deal in 2004.
He became Supervisor of the DeKalb Magistrate Court, Criminal Division in 2017, and also served as Chief Judge of the Lithonia Municipal Court. After retiring from the DeKalb County Magistrate Court in 2021, he joined Stewart Miller Simmons as Of Counsel in 2022. He also serves as Judge Pro Tem in the DeKalb County Juvenile Court.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys
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A Clayton County jury awarded $1 billion to a woman who was raped at age 14 by an armed security guard her employer hired without verifying he was licensed to carry a weapon.
Ben Crump, with co-counsel Antonio Romanucci and L. Chris Stewart, negotiated a $27 million settlement between the family of George Floyd and the City of Minneapolis, announced by the family's lawyers as the largest pretrial settlement of a civil rights wrongful-death claim in American history. The city council approved the payment unanimously in March 2021, while jury selection in Derek Chauvin's murder trial was underway blocks away.
A Forsyth County jury awarded $16 million to a woman sexually assaulted in her Winston-Salem Residence Inn room after a hotel night clerk who had not been properly trained handed a visibly intoxicated stranger a keycard to her room.
The City of North Charleston paid $6.5 million to the family of Walter Scott, an unarmed man shot in the back by a police officer after a routine traffic stop, in what attorney L. Chris Stewart described as the largest pre-lawsuit settlement in South Carolina history.
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