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RICKETT v. STATE

No. S03A0741.

581 S.E.2d 32 (2003)

276 Ga. 609

RICKETT v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

May 19, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Rickett, pro se.

Richard E. Currie, Dist. Atty., Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., for appellee.

CARLEY, Justice.

In 1986, James Albert Rickett pled guilty in Ware County to a charge of trafficking in cocaine, and the trial court imposed a 25-year sentence. In 1998, a federal court in Florida sentenced him to a 180-month prison term for various drug offenses. In 2001, he filed an unverified pro se habeas corpus petition in Ware County attacking his 1986 guilty plea, even though he was being held in a Florida correctional institution on the federal drug charges...

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