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WRIGHT v. STATE

No. S13A0128.

742 S.E.2d 468 (2013)

292 Ga. 825

WRIGHT v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 29, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Mac Christian Pilgrim, The Pilgrim law Group, LLC, Villa Rica, for appellant.

Gary Drew Bergman, Prosecuting Attorney's, Council of Georgia, Robert Earl Brooks, Jr., Dist. Atty., Office of the District Attorney, Paula Khristian Smith, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Samuel S. Olens, Atty. Gen., Kenneth Wesley Mishoe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, for appellee.

HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

Jimmy Wayne Wright entered a guilty plea to the malice murders of James William Jackson and Tina Michelle McAdams and was sentenced to life without parole.1 He filed a timely motion to withdraw his guilty plea, contending that he was coerced into entering the plea and his trial counsel were ineffective for failing to properly investigate the case. Because the trial court properly ruled that Wright made an intelligent...

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