Regent v. the State

Miller, Judge.

Steven Regent entered into a nonnegotiated guilty plea to one count of aggravated assault (OCGA § 16-5-21 (a) (2)) and one count of aggravated battery (OCGA § 16-5-24 (a)). The trial court sentenced Regent to twenty years with twelve years to serve on the aggravated assault charge and a consecutive sentence of ten years on the aggravated battery charge. The trial court also banished Regent from all of Georgia, except for Toombs County, as a special condition of probation. Following the grant of his petition for habeas relief, Regent appeals, 1 contending that (1) the trial court…