Stewart v. Milliken
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Hunstein, Justice.
In September 2001, the habeas corpus court found that Leonard Scott Milliken received ineffective assistance of appellate counsel at his trial and ordered that Milliken be given a new appeal. The State did not file an appeal from this ruling, see OCGA § 9-14-52 (c), nor did it file a cross appeal after we granted Milliken a certificate of probable cause to appeal in order to consider the propriety of the relief ordered by the habeas corpus court. See Birt v. Hopper, 245 Ga. 221 (265 SE2d 276) (1980). In Milliken v. Stewart, 276 Ga. 712 (583 SE2d 30) (2003), we reversed the…
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