Ballard v. State

321 Ga. 352

FINAL COPY S25A0081. BALLARD v. THE STATE. COLVIN, Justice. Appellant Rico Lamar Ballard, who proceeds pro se in this appeal, was convicted of malice murder in connection with the 1995 shooting death of Jason Pitts. See Ballard v. State, 268 Ga. 895, 895 & n.1 ( 494 SE2d 644) (1998). We affirmed his conviction on direct appeal in 1998, see

id. at 895, and since then, Appellant has attempted to overturn his conviction, see, e.g., Ballard v. State,

304 Ga. 67, 67

( 815 SE2d 824) (2018) (remanding for the trial court to dismiss as untimely Appellant’s motion and amended motion in arrest…