Massaline v. Williams

Fletcher, Chief Justice.

Robert Massaline is incarcerated in Georgia’s prison system and is without legal representation. Massaline filed pro se an application for certificate of probable cause to appeal (“application”), requesting this Court to review the superior court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. We dismissed his application because it was received in the Clerk of Court’s office one day after the due date. We granted Massaline’s motion for reconsideration and his application to consider whether we should adopt a mailbox rule under which a pro se prisoner’s application…