Supreme Court of Georgia

Flanders v. State

December 21, 2020310 Ga. 619

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia granted certiorari, vacated the Court of Appeals’ judgment, and remanded for consideration of Flanders’s Brady claim. It held that a timely motion to withdraw a guilty plea preserves the trial court’s authority to consider amendments raising additional claims, even when the amendment is filed in a later term of court. The court rejected the contrary jurisdictional rule applied below.