Legal Opinion
Cook v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 15, 2022No. S21A1270PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
313 Ga. 471
FINAL COPY S21A1270. COOK v. THE STATE. WARREN, Justice. When a convicted criminal defendant is unconstitutionally deprived of an appeal of right, which typically occurs because her counsel provided ineffective assistance in failing to file a timely appeal, she is entitled to an untimely or “out-of-time” appeal. In this case, we examine the difficult question of whether this Court should overrule our precedent allowing a criminal defendant who alleges that she was unconstitutionally deprived of her appeal as of right to file a motion for out-of-time appeal in the trial court, as…
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