Sloan v. Sanders

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

We granted the certificate of probable cause to appeal in this habeas corpus action to consider whether Carl L. Sloan’s appellate counsel was ineffective in not raising trial counsel’s failure to move for dismissal pursuant to a statutory speedy trial demand. Because the record establishes that Sloan was not tried in accordance with his speedy trial demand and no reasonably effective appellate counsel would have failed to assert this issue on appeal, we reverse.

Sloan’s trial counsel filed a demand for speedy trial during the July term under OCGA § 17-7-170.…