Court Opinion

ID: 9962377
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Date Created: 2024-04-23 16:04:03.152335+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:20:50.606632
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Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

                                        ATLANTA,____________________
                                                 April 23, 2024

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A24A1228. CHARLES HARRIS v. THE STATE.

      In August 2023, Charles Harris pleaded guilty to one count of criminal damage
to property in the second degree, and the trial court sentenced him to five years on
probation. On November 30, 2023, the court denied Harris’s pro se motion to
withdraw plea/motion to correct void sentence and motion to modify sentence. Harris
filed both an application for discretionary appeal, which this Court dismissed as
untimely, see Case No. A24D0213 (Jan. 31, 2024), and the instant appeal followed.
      “It is axiomatic that the same issue cannot be relitigated ad infinitum.” Echols
v. State, 243 Ga. App. 775, 776 (534 SE2d 464) (2000). Harris “is not entitled to
multiple bites at the apple.” Ross v. State, 310 Ga. App. 326, 328 (713 SE2d 438)
(2011) (holding that when defendant failed to appeal trial court’s decision in a timely
manner, he is thereafter bound by same). Because Harris already appealed the same
trial court order in Case No. A24D0213, his current appeal is barred. Howard v. State,
289 Ga. 207, 207 (1) (710 SE2d 761) (2011) (defendant “cannot re-litigate here the
same issues that were dismissed in his prior appeals”); Norris v. Norris, 281 Ga. 566,
567-568 (2) (642 SE2d 34) (2007) (res judicata barred claim that had been raised in a
prior application which this Court dismissed as untimely).
      Accordingly, this appeal is hereby DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction.

                                       Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
                                         Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________
                                                                     04/23/2024
                                                  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.