HUGHES v. STATE

No. S12A0136.

727 S.E.2d 459 (2012)

291 Ga. 65

HUGHES v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

May 7, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Richard Edwards , Asst. Dist. Atty., Patrick H. Head , Dist. Atty., Anna Green Cross , Asst. Dist. Atty., Amelia Greeson Pray , Asst. Dist. Atty., District Attorney's Office, for appellee.

Drew D. Dropkin , Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore , Mercer Law School, Macon, Joseph Scott Key , J. Scott Key P.C., McDonough, William E. Hoffmann, Jr. , King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.


MELTON, Justice.

Jermaine Hughes is currently serving a 13-year federal sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta. His sentence is being enhanced by a State drug-related felony conviction and various misdemeanor convictions that had been previously imposed on Hughes in Cobb County. In May 2008, Hughes filed in the Superior Court of Cobb County a petition for habeas corpus relief challenging his Cobb County convictions. On August 9, 2010, the Superior Court...

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