Matthew Cercy v. State

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA,____________________ April 13, 2017 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order: A17A0815. MATTHEW CERCY v. THE STATE. In 1999, Matthew Cercy pled guilty to multiple offenses, including rape, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and aggravated sodomy. In sentencing him, the trial court ran several of the sentences consecutively. In 2016, Cercy filed a motion to vacate a void sentence, arguing that OCGA § 17-10.6.1 precluded the trial court from entering consecutive sentences for serious violent felonies. The trial court denied the motion,…