Court Opinion

ID: 9570994
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:28:17.406468+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:25:57.657282
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Grice, Chief Justice,
concurring.
The writer concurred in Sims v. State of Ga., 230 Ga. 589, supra, which held that a person discharged from all state restraint had no standing to bring a habeas corpus petition for post-conviction relief, and which distinguished Carafas v. LaVallee, 391 U. S. 234 (88 SC 1556, 20 LE2d 554).
On further consideration of the Carafas case, and later decisions of the United States Supreme Court, (particularly Sibron v. New York, 392 U. S. 40 (88 SC 1889, 20 LE2d 917); Strait v. Laird, 406 U.S. 341 (92 SC 1693, 32 LE2d 141) and Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky, 410 U.S. 484 (93 SC 1123, 35 LE2d 443)), I am of the opinion that the United States Supreme Court has expanded the class of persons who may apply for *692habeas corpus relief to include persons alleging void convictions, who are suffering collateral consequences of their sentences. The ruling in Sims v. State of Ga., supra, does not conform to these decisions of the United States Supreme Court.
I therefore concur in the foregoing decision of this court.