Smith, Warden v. Chandler

316 Ga. 321

FINAL COPY S23A0224. SMITH v. CHANDLER. BOGGS, Chief Justice. At a jury trial in 2017, Erasmus Chandler was found guilty of aggravated child molestation and two counts of child molestation. In 2019, the Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions in an unpublished opinion. Chandler later filed a pro se petition for habeas corpus, which the habeas court granted in 2022 on the ground that Chandler’s appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance at the motion for new trial stage and on appeal, including by failing to raise and prove claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel.…