Jackson v. State

Nahmias, Justice.

The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s denial of Anthony Otto Jackson’s pro se motion to vacate void judgment with respect to his 1996 convictions for armed robbery, burglary, and false imprisonment and his sentence. Jackson notified the Clerk of the Court of Appeals that he had been transferred to a different prison, but the Clerk continued to send correspondence to him at his old address. As a result, by the time Jackson received the Court of Appeals’ opinion, the deadline for him to file a motion for reconsideration had passed. See Georgia Court of Appeals Rule 37…