Opinion ID: 78503
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Heading: State Court Removes Detainer

Text: In January 2003, Hart filed a motion for a new hearing on his sentencing with the state trial court judge who sentenced Hart originally. Defendant Hodges appeared at the state court hearing on Hart's sentencing motion. On February 20, 2003, the state trial court ordered (1) that the detainer placed against Hart by the Georgia DOC (through Hodges's actions) be removed; and (2) that: Hart will serve no additional time in any state correctional facility once he is released March 14, 2003 from the federal facility where he is currently serving (hereinafter, the second state sentence). On March 12, 2003, Defendant Hodges filed a notice of appeal of the state trial court's February 20, 2003 second state sentence. At the prompting of Defendants Hodges or Amideo, the Georgia DOC issued a second State Warrant, dated March 12, 2003, instructing federal prison officials and Arkansas state law enforcement officials to retake [Hart] wherever he may be found for his return to the State Penitentiary of Georgia (the second state warrant). Defendant Hodges also allegedly called the Sheriff's Office of Cross County, Arkansas, where the federal prison is located, and persuaded law enforcement officers there to detain Hart upon his release from federal custody, to transfer him to the Cross County, Arkansas Jail, and to hold him until Hodges could arrange for Hart to be transported to Georgia.