Legal Opinion
Gray v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 19, 2020No. S20G0192PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
310 Ga. 259
FINAL COPY S20G0192. GRAY v. THE STATE. MCMILLIAN, Justice. We granted a petition for writ of certiorari to determine whether a trial court has jurisdiction to modify a sentence outside the one-year period after a sentence is imposed, as authorized under OCGA § 17-10-1 (f), when the motion to modify is filed within the one-year period. The Court of Appeals held in Gray v. State,
351 Ga. App. 703
( 832 SE2d 857) (2019) that trial courts lack jurisdiction after one year, irrespective of when the motion to modify sentence is filed. As explained below, we reverse and remand the case to…
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