Ward v. Medina
Annotate this CaseA habeas court granted relief to Jonathon Medina on the grounds that his guilty plea was involuntary and trial counsel was ineffective. Timothy Ward, the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections, appealed the habeas court’s order, challenging each of those grounds. Because the Georgia Supreme Court concluded the habeas court did not err in granting relief to Medina on his involuntary-plea claim, and affirmed the habeas court’s decision on that ground without addressing that court’s rulings on Medina’s ineffective assistance claims.
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