Swantner v. State

How courts have described this case

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• OCGA § 17-10-6.1 “provides for mandatory minimum sentences and forbids pardon, parole, or first offender status for certain ‘serious violent felonies,’ but not for drug trafficking.”
• where defendant acknowledged to counsel that he possessed drugs named in indictment, counsel not ineffective in failing to investigate crime lab report regarding weight and purity of drugs
• There is “no requirement that the elements of the crime be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Rather, the court must satisfy itself subjectively that the pleader knows both what he has done and that those acts constitute the crime with which he is charged”
• two-and-a-half-hour consultation alone not inadequate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).