Court Opinion

ID: 9560972
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:00:30.109649+00
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Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur but believe it necessary to point out with respect to Division 2 that this is not an appeal in which the trial court granted leave to file a late appeal and new counsel had no opportunity to raise the issue below.
This out-of-time appeal was the relief sought in and granted by a habeas corpus court based on a petition filed on the prisoner’s behalf by new counsel. Such is reflected in the order of the habeas court which was transmitted to the criminal trial court. The ineffectiveness issue could have been raised in the habeas corpus petition brought by new counsel.
Applying the principle which has repeatedly guided the decisions of the Georgia Supreme Court in this area and which is quoted in the *248majority opinion, “the earliest practicable moment” in this case was the habeas corpus proceeding. See for example McDuffie v. Jones, 248 Ga. 544, 550 (4) (283 SE2d 601) (1981). Not having been raised there, the issue was waived and remand for a third trip to the trial court is not warranted.
Decided July 11, 1989.
Glenn B. Icard, Jr., for appellant.
Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Albert B. Collier, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.