Buckner v. Barrow

Blackwell, Justice.

Christopher M. Buckner was convicted of violations of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, 1 he appealed, knd the Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions. See Buckner v. State, 321 Ga. App. 715 (742 SE2d 528) (2013). In his appeal, Buckner asserted several claims of error, but the Court of Appeals rejected them all. It rejected one on the ground that Buckner had abandoned it by his failure to make any meaningful legal argument in his appellate brief in support of that claim. See id. at 718 (3). Buckner then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he…