Benjamin v. State

Phipps, Judge.

A jury found Darryl Benjamin guilty of the 1991 armed robbery and kidnapping of employees at a Sandy Springs movie theater. He was sentenced to serve five consecutive life sentences on the armed robbery charges and seven twenty-year sentences, to run concurrently with each other and with the life sentences, on the kidnapping charges. We affirmed his convictions. In November 2003, Benjamin filed a pro se “Motion to Modify Void and Unauthorized Conviction and Sentences.” The trial court denied the motion as untimely, and Benjamin appeals. Because his motion was groundless, we…