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DAVIS v. STATE

S19A0308.

828 S.E.2d 298 (2019)

DAVIS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: May 20, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Rea Whitlock , DEBORAH WHITLOCK ATTORNEY AT LAW, P.O. Box 310, Toccoa, Georgia 30577, Bentley C. Adams, III , ATTORNEY AT LAW, 4121 Rice Street, Number 2609, Lihue, Hawaii 96766, for Appellant.

Jonathan Lang Adams , District Attorney, TOWALIGA CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 625 W 3rd Street, Suite 8, Jackson, Georgia 30233, 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, Cynthia Trimboli Adams , A.D.A., Elizabeth Knight Bobbitt , A.D.A., TOWALIGA CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 326 Thomaston Street, Barnesville, Georgia 30204, for Appellee.

Nearly twenty years ago, Appellant Donald Davis pleaded guilty to the murder of Shereka Smith and was convicted and sentenced. Davis did not timely pursue a direct appeal. Following his unsuccessful pursuit of a writ of habeas corpus, he filed a motion for an out-of-time appeal of his conviction, which the trial court denied. Davis...

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