Carlisle v. State

Thompson, Justice.

We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Carlisle v. State, 257 Ga. App. 282 (570 SE2d 616) (2002), to address an issue of first impression, namely whether certain criminal charges which had been the subject of a previous order of nolle prosequi may be revived where those charges have not been reindicted, the term of court in which the nolle pros was entered has expired without the trial court having vacated its entry of the order, and the statute of limitation for prosecution of those offenses has run. Under the circumstances of this case, we hold that the trial…