Thomas v. State

319 Ga. 123

FINAL COPY S24A0174. THOMAS v. THE STATE. BETHEL, Justice. This Court granted the interlocutory application of Tyler Jarel Thomas, who timely sought review of a trial court order that vacated its earlier grant of his motion to suppress. Thomas argues that the end-of-term rule, which we have held imposes a term-based time restriction on a trial court’s authority over its interlocutory orders in criminal cases, should have barred the trial court’s reconsideration, even though a new trial had been granted in his case. But for the reasons explained below, we conclude that Thomas’s…