Court Opinion

ID: 9918733
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Date Created: 2024-01-16 16:03:12.136012+00
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Court of Appeals
of the State of Georgia

                                        ATLANTA,____________________
                                                 January 16, 2024

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A24D0187. J. B. GILLIS, JR. v. THE STATE.

      In August 2023, J. B. Gillis, Jr., acting pro se, filed an application for
discretionary appeal in this Court, seeking review of a trial court order revoking his
probation. We dismissed that application, noting that Gillis had failed to include with
his application materials a copy of the revocation order. Gillis v. State, Case No.
A24D0058 (September 21, 2023). Instead, Gillis included only a copy of a warrant
for his arrest on the alleged probation violations, dated January 24, 2023. Given the
lack of a trial court order, we were unable to determine that Gillis’s application was
timely, and we therefore dismissed the filing for lack of jurisdiction.1 See OCGA §
5-6-35 (d) (to be timely, an application for discretionary appeal must be filed within
30 days of entry of the order sought to be appealed); Court of Appeals Rule 31 (a).
See also Hair Restoration Specialists v. State of Georgia, 360 Ga. App. 901, 903 (862
SE2d 564) (2021) (compliance with the discretionary appeals procedure is
jurisdictional); Court of Appeals Rule 31 (c) (an application for discretionary review
must include a stamped “filed” copy of the order from which the appeal is sought).
      On December 14, 2023, Gillis filed the current application, again seeking
discretionary review of the order revoking his probation. The current application is
essentially identical to Gillis’s August application, and Gillis has again failed to
include a copy of the trial court order at issue. Gillis’s initial application, however,
demonstrates that the revocation order issued no later than August 2023. Accordingly,

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       In doing so, we observed that the application was untimely as to the January
2023 arrest warrant.
the current application, which was filed several months after entry of the order Gillis
seeks to appeal, is untimely. The application, therefore, is hereby DISMISSED for
lack of jurisdiction. See Hair Restoration Specialists, 360 Ga. App. at 903 (failure to
comply with the discretionary application procedure requires dismissal of the appeal);
Court of Appeals Rule 31 (c).

                                        Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
                                                C l e r k ’ s                  O f f i c e ,
                                        Atlanta,____________________
                                                  01/16/2024
                                                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.