GA Supreme Court throws out decades of its own precedent to fuck over defendants.

The Georgia Supreme Court has overruled two decades of its own precedent by deciding that a criminal defendant’s guilty plea can stand in cases where a judge failed to advise the defendant of all the rights they waived when pleading guilty.

In a unanimous opinion issued Tuesday, the court said it was wrong to have invalidated guilty pleas in cases where defendants were not expressly told about each of the rights they waived.

The court declined Tuesday to set aside the guilty plea and life sentence of Donald Green in the shooting death of Andre Winder, after a Fulton County judge failed to tell Green that he was waiving his right to be protected from self-incrimination.