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Defendant Nathan Stokes appeals an order of the Superior Court of Cobb County dismissing as untimely Stokes’s “amended” motion to withdraw his guilty pleas. The determinative question is whether Stokes’s in-term pro se letter to the clerk of court was, in fact, a motion to withdraw his guilty pleas for the purpose of rendering the subsequent out-of-term motion an amendment and timely for consideration by the superior court. Finding that it was not, we affirm. On September 18, 2008, Stokes was charged, along with two other men, in a fifteen-count indictment stemming from a June 16, 2008 armed robbery and a June 20, 2008 armed robbery, during which one of the victims was fatally shot.1 Counsel was appointed to represent Stokes on September 25, 2008.

In regard to both criminal incidents, on February 2, 2009, Stokes entered negotiated pleas of guilty to one count of felony murder and one count of robbery, as a lesser included offense of the charged armed robbery; an order of nolle prosequi was entered in regard to the remaining thirteen counts of the indictment. That same day, Stokes was sentenced to life in prison for felony murder and a consecutive 20 years in prison for robbery.

 
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