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Jordan v. State

Citations

  • 559 S.E.2d 528
  • 253 Ga. App. 510
  • 2002 Fulton County D. Rep. 403
  • 2002 Ga. App. LEXIS 115

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that once a motion to vacate a void sentence has been raised and considered that decision is res judicata
  • ineffective assistance of counsel claim “go[es] to the validity of [the defendant’s] conviction rather than the validity of his sentence” (punctuation omitted)
  • ineffective assistance claim that counsel failed to properly challenge conviction on a particular count could not be pursued through motion to correct void sentence
  • “It is axiomatic that the same issue cannot be relitigated ad infinitum. The same is true of appeals of the same issue on the same grounds.”
  • allegation of ineffective assistance of counsel “goes only to challenge [defendant’s] conviction”
  • allegation of ineffective assistance of counsel was not colorable void- sentence claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Barnes, Smith, Phipps

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