Rader v. State

PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.

In Rader v. State, 1 we affirmed the trial court’s denial of the Appellants’ motions to dismiss the indictments against them. We also vacated a portion of the trial court’s order concerning statute of limitation defenses asserted by the Appellants in pleas in bar, and we remanded the case to the tried court for further proceedings thereon. 2

Subsequently, the Supreme Court of Georgia issued an opinion in a related civil case, Levenson v. Word, 3 that arose from the same set of circumstances that gave rise to these criminal cases. Then, in Cooke v. State and Rader v.…