Buckner v. Barrow, Warden

297 Ga. 68

FINAL COPY S15A0093. BUCKNER v. BARROW. BLACKWELL, Justice. Christopher M. Buckner was convicted of violations of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act,1 he appealed, and the Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions. See Buckner v. State,

321 Ga. App. 715

( 742 SE2d 528) (2013). In his appeal, Buckner asserted several claims of error, but the Court of Appeals rejected them all. It rejected one on the ground that Buckner had abandoned it by his failure to make any meaningful legal argument in his appellate brief in support of that claim. See

id. at 718(3). Buckner then filed a petition…