Hughes v. State

Melton, Justice.

Jermaine Hughes is currently serving a 13-year federal sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta. His sentence is being enhanced by a State drug-related felony conviction and various misdemeanor convictions that hadbeen previously imposed on Hughes in Cobb County. In May 2008, Hughes filed in the Superior Court of Cobb County a petition for habeas corpus relief challenging his Cobb County convictions. On August 9,2010, the Superior Court concluded that venue for Hughes’ habeas proceeding was not proper in Cobb County, and that Fulton County was the proper venue,…