Mason v. Home Real Estate Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• directing the Council of Superior Court Judges to propose a rule to reduce post-conviction delays
• explaining that “even if long-delayed appeals rarely result in outright reversals of convictions or only retrials or resentencings, these extended and unjustified delays in resolving criminal cases make our State’s criminal justice system appear unfair and grossly inefficient”
• directing the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia to submit to this court for approval a proposed Uniform Rule of Superior Court to address the problem of unjustified delays in ruling on post-conviction motions
• “reiterat[ing] that it is the duty of all those involved in the criminal justice system . . . to ensure that the appropriate post-conviction motions are filed, litigated, and decided without unnecessary delay”
• directing the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia to submit to this court for approval a proposed Uniform Rule of Superior Court to address the problem of unjustified delays in ruling on post- conviction motions
• reminding the bench and bar that we do not condone inordinate delays in the appellate process as such “delays put at risk the rights of defendants and crime victims and the validity of convictions obtained after a full trial” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).