BALLARD v. STATE

S18A0998.

815 S.E.2d 824 (2018)

BALLARD v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rico Ballard , GDC# 886719 Georgia Diagnostic Classification Prison, P.O. Box 3877, Jackson, Georgia 30233, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Paul L. Howard, Jr. , District Attorney, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder , Deputy D.A., Kevin Christopher Armstrong , Fulton County District Attorney's Office, 136 Pryor Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellee.


Rico Lamar Ballard appeals pro se from the Superior Court of Fulton County's denial of his motion and amended motion in arrest of judgment, which Ballard filed many years after his 1996 murder conviction. We do not reach the merits of Ballard's claims, however, because the trial court lacked jurisdiction and should have dismissed...

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