Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-02-08 19:04:58.071947+00
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Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

                                       ATLANTA,____________________
                                                February 08, 2024

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A24D0228. MAJOR A. CLARK v. THE STATE.

      On January 17, 2024, Major A. Clark filed this application for discretionary
review of the trial court’s October 13, 2021 order revoking his probation. We lack
jurisdiction because the application is untimely.
      To be timely, an application for discretionary review must be filed within 30
days of entry of the order or judgment to be appealed. See OCGA § 5-6-35 (d). As this
application was filed more than two years after entry of the order revoking Clark’s
probation, it is untimely and is hereby DISMISSED.1 See Boyle v. State, 190 Ga. App.
734, 734 (380 SE2d 57) (1989) (“The requirements of OCGA § 5-6-35 are
jurisdictional and this [C]ourt cannot accept an appeal not made in compliance
therewith.”); see also Gable v. State, 290 Ga. 81, 82 (2) (a) (720 SE2d 170) (2011)

      1
         Clark states in his application that a notice of discretionary appeal was
previously filed in the trial court. However, he has not included evidence of such a
filing or of how or whether the trial court disposed of it. In any event, appeals from
orders revoking probation must be made by application and timely filed “with the
clerk of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals[,]” not with the clerk of the trial
court. See OCGA § 5-6-35 (a) (5), (d).
(noting that this Court “has held that the failure to meet the statutory deadline for
filing a discretionary appeal is a jurisdictional defect”).

                                         C our t of Appeals of the State of G eorgia
                                            Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________
                                                                     02/08/2024
                                                    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.