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SUMMARIES OF OPINIONS
Published Monday, October 18, 2010 Please note: Opinion summaries are prepared by the Public Information Office for the general public and news media. Summaries are not prepared for every opinion released by the Court, but only for those cases considered of great public interest or in which a Justice dissented or the Court reviewed a case from the Court of Appeals. Opinion summaries are not to be considered as official opinions of the Court. The full text of these and all other recent Court opinions are available on the Supreme Court website at www.gasupreme.us . FLINT V. THE STATE (S10A1093) In a 5-to-2 vote, the Supreme Court of Georgia has upheld the dismissal of a mans petition challenging his drug convictions on the ground that he waited too long to file it. Lorenzo E. Flint, Jr. pleaded guilty in 1988 in Fulton County to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. He was sentenced to four years in prison and a year on probation. In 1993, Flint was convicted of federal drug trafficking charges, and evidence of his 1988 state convictions was used to increase his sentence in federal prison, where he remains today. In 2007

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