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BURLEY v. STATE

S20A0356.

842 S.E.2d 851 (2020)

BURLEY v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: May 4, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas G. Burley , GDC #687404, Phillips State Prison, 2989 W. Rock Quarry Road, Buford, Georgia 30519, Attorneys for the Appellant.

William Arles Lisenby, Jr. , A.D.A., Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit DA's Office, 102 North College Street, Hamilton, Georgia 31811, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater , District Attorney, Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 100 Tenth Street, Columbus, Georgia 31902-1340, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Attorneys for the Appellee.

Douglas Burley, who pled guilty to malice murder in 1992, filed a motion for an out-of-time appeal in 2019, claiming that his right to appeal was frustrated by his plea counsel's erroneous advice that he could not appeal his conviction because it was the product of a guilty plea. The trial...

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