Meheux v. State

309 Ga. 857

FINAL COPY S20A0963. MEHEUX v. THE STATE. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Appellant Darien Meheux appeals his 2014 conviction for the malice murder of Jasmine Benjamin, asserting that the trial court erred in admitting a handwritten statement and that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective. However, because Meheux, acting pro se, filed a motion for new trial while he was still represented by trial counsel and his amended motion for new trial filed by counsel was untimely, the trial court should have dismissed the motion rather than deciding it on the merits, and we therefore vacate…