In re Regulations of the Board of Law Examiners

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• holding that 20-year prison sentences for child molestation convictions were void for failure to comply with OCGA § 17-10-6.2
• holding that 20-year prison sentences for child molestation convictions were void
• noting that “[a] motion to vacate void judgment on the basis that the judgment was imposed by a court that was not the proper venue for the prosecution was a challenge to the defendant’s conviction, not his sentence”
• remanding a case to the trial court for re-sentencing because the original sentence imposed a punishment that the law does not allow
• vacating a void sentence where the trial court failed to enter a split sentence for child molestation
• “[a] claim challenging a conviction and a claim challenging the resulting sentence as void are not the same”

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