Rollins v. State

Sears, Presiding Justice.

This Court granted appellant Michele Yearwood Rollins’s application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal the denial of her petition for habeas corpus relief. In her petition, Rollins alleged she received ineffective assistance from counsel in connection with her entry in 1989 of a First Offender 1 guilty plea to charges that she violated the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. 2 Having reviewed the record, we conclude that Rollins’s plea was based upon the affirmative misrepresentations of counsel made in response to her inquiries about the collateral…