Legal Opinion
Byrd v. Shaffer
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 15, 1999No. S99A0934Published
1Opinion of the Court
523 S.E.2d 875 (1999)
271 Ga. 691
BYRD
v.
SHAFFER.
No. S99A0934.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
November 15, 1999.
Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.
Marcus C. Chamblee, Stephen D. Pereira, Roswell, for appellee.
FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.
The state appeals the grant of habeas corpus relief to Michael John Shaffer. Because the record supports the habeas court's findings that the state failed to establish that Shaffer waived his constitutional rights in pleading guilty, we conclude that the…
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2Cases cited22 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Parke v. RaleySupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- State v. SheltonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
- Nash v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
- State v. EvansSupreme Court of Georgia · 1995
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