Case Name: SMITH v. BROWN (two cases)
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 2009-10-19
Citations: 286 Ga. 137
Docket Number: S09A1653, S09A1654
Parties: SMITH v. BROWN (two cases).
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 286
Pages: 137–137

Head Matter:
S09A1653, S09A1654.
SMITH v. BROWN (two cases).
(686 SE2d 760)
Decided October 19, 2009
Reconsideration denied November 9, 2009.
Arlanda Smith, pro se.
Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, District Attorney, Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Opinion:
NAHMIAS, Justice.
Arlanda Smith is the defendant in a pending criminal prosecution. He filed this pre-trial habeas corpus petition raising numerous issues regarding that prosecution, including a claim that the trial court presiding over his prosecution should be recused. The habeas court denied relief on the ground that, because he could assert these issues in his pending criminal case, habeas relief was unavailable to Smith. In these two appeals, Smith contends the habeas court erred. On the contrary, the habeas court properly ruled that Smith could assert all of the claims he raises in his pending prosecution and that "pre-trial habeas corpus relief cannot be predicated" on those claims. Mungin v. St. Lawrence, 281 Ga. 671, 672 (641 SE2d 541) (2007); Perera v. Miller, 283 Ga. 583 (662 SE2d 544) (2008). Accordingly, we affirm the habeas court's judgment.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.