STATE v. GREEN

No. A10A1673.

706 S.E.2d 720 (2011)

The STATE v. GREEN.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

February 22, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Wayne Hendricks Jr. , District Attorney, for appellant.

Stephen Randall Scarborough , Atlanta, for appellee.


PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.

The state appeals from the trial court's order vacating Charlton Green's ten-year-old sodomy conviction. Because Green was not entitled to such relief, we reverse.

When a question of law is at issue, as here, we review the trial court's ruling de novo and reverse if the court committed legal error.1

In 1997, Green pled guilty to sodomy and other offenses and was sentenced as a first offender, which...

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