Court Opinion

ID: 9780818
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 02:57:51.414476+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:14.468800
License: Public Domain

NAHMIAS, Justice,
concurring.
The Court correctly applies our Boykin-based decisions of the past few years to hold that Brown was adequately advised of his “three Boykin rights” and thus that his 1993 guilty plea — which he did not challenge until 2008 — was freely and voluntarily entered. I would prefer to reach that result, and it would be easier to do so, using the less formalistic analysis that I believe Boykin actually requires and that our older, but never overruled, cases employed. See Tyner v. State, 289 Ga. 592, 595 (4) (714 SE2d 577) (2011) (opinion of Nahmias, J., joined by Carley, E J.); Goodman v. Davis, 249 Ga. 11, 14 (287 SE2d 26) (1982) (“We decline to adopt a rule which would demand that failure to advise an accused of his right against self-incrimination invalidates a guilty plea in a case where the record reflects that the central considerations of Boykin have otherwise been met.”). However, because the Court’s opinion reaches the right result and does no further harm to our Boykin case law, I can join the opinion in full.