Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 14. HABEAS CORPUS · Article 2. PROCEDURE FOR PERSONS UNDER SENTENCE OF STATE COURT OF RECORD

9-14-51. Effect of failure to raise grounds for relief in original or amended petition.

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All grounds for relief claimed by a petitioner for a writ of habeas corpus shall be raised by a petitioner in his original or amended petition. Any grounds not so raised are waived unless the Constitution of the United States or of this state otherwise requires or unless any judge to whom the petition is assigned, on considering a subsequent petition, finds grounds for relief asserted therein which could not reasonably have been raised in the original or amended petition.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1933, § 50-127, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 835, § 3; Ga. L. 1973, p. 1315, § 1.

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Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, page 383; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.