Rodriguez v. the State

WHOLE COURT
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December 18, 2014
In the Court of Appeals of Georgia
A12A2397. RODRIGUEZ v. THE STATE.
ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.
In Rodriguez v. State, 295 Ga. 362 (761 SE2d 19) (2014), the Supreme Court
concluded that, because this Court was equally divided on the judgment, the case
should have been immediately transferred to the Supreme Court pursuant to the Equal
Division clause (Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. V, Par. V.), and, therefore, the
decision in Rodriguez v. State, 321 Ga. App. 619 (746 SE2d 366) (2013), should not
have been rendered. The Supreme Court vacated this Court’s decision in Rodriguez;
decided the merits of the appeal as if the case had been properly transferred; and
remanded the case to this Court with direction “that a remittitur issue to the trial
court, affirming the judgment of the trial court, and accompanied by [the Supreme
Court’s] opinion.” Rodriguez, 295 Ga. at 366 n.6, 373.
Judgment affirmed. Phipps, C. J., Barnes, P. J., Ellington, P. J., Doyle, P. J.,
Miller, Dillard, McFadden, Boggs, Ray, Branch and McMillian, JJ., concur.
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