Court Opinion

ID: 9960884
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Date Created: 2024-04-17 15:06:11.877654+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:20:00.406806
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Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

                                          ATLANTA,____________________
                                                   April 17, 2024

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A24A1162. GARY CONNER v. SHONDRA HOLMES.

       In 2020, the trial court granted Shondra Holmes’s petition for a stalking ex-parte
temporary protective order against Gary Conner. In 2023, Conner filed a pro se
“Motion to Arrest Void Judgment,” arguing that the protective order was invalid.
When the trial court denied Conner’s motion, he filed both a discretionary application,
which this Court denied,1 and this appeal.
       Pretermitting whether the order denying Conner’s motion is directly appealable,
further appellate review of that order is barred because of this Court’s denial of his
discretionary application. See Ross v. State, 310 Ga. App. 326, 327 (713 SE2d 438)
(2011) (“[A]ny issue that was raised and resolved in an earlier appeal is the law of the
case and is binding on this Court . . . .”) (punctuation and footnote omitted); Hook v.
Bergen, 286 Ga. App. 258, 261 (1) (649 SE2d 313) (2007) (“[T]he denial of an
application for discretionary appeal is an adjudication on the merits of the underlying
order and acts as res judicata in subsequent proceedings.”). Accordingly, this appeal
is hereby DISMISSED.
                                          Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
                                             Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________
                                                                         04/17/2024
                                                     I certify that the above is a true extract from
                                          the minutes of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.
                                                     Witness my signature and the seal of said court
                                          hereto affixed the day and year last above written.

                                                                                           , Clerk.

       1
           See Case No. A24D0269 (denied Mar. 25, 2024).