Legal Opinion
Dos Santos v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 21, 2019No. S19A1352PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
307 Ga. 151
FINAL COPY S19A1352. DOS SANTOS v. THE STATE. NAHMIAS, Presiding Justice. On April 16, 2018, Tia Marie Dos Santos entered negotiated guilty pleas to felony murder and other crimes. In the same term of court, she filed a pro se motion to withdraw her guilty pleas. The trial court denied the motion as meritless, and Dos Santos timely appealed to this Court. As we explain below, under our decision in White v. State,
302 Ga. 315
( 806 SE2d 489) (2017), the trial court should have dismissed Dos Santos’s pro se motion as a legal nullity, because she was still represented by her plea…
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