BAZEMORE v. STATE

No. S00A1100.

535 S.E.2d 760 (2000)

BAZEMORE v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levon Bazemore, pro se.

Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, for appellee.


HINES, Justice.

We granted Levon Bazemore an appeal from the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus to consider whether his 1990 guilty pleas were constitutionally valid under Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969). We conclude that they were not, and reverse.

On June 13, 1990, Bazemore entered guilty pleas in unrelated cases for theft by receiving and theft by taking. He was represented...

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