268 Ga. App. 16 - Denova v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “[t]o the extent that [Shelton] is challenging the validity of his guilty plea, his challenge to the trial court’s acceptance of the plea must be raised through habeas corpus proceedings because he neither sought to withdraw his guilty plea nor filed a direct appeal until after the expiration of the term of court in which his plea was accepted.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 275 Ga. App. 566 - Thompson v. State · 307 Ga. App. 599 - Shelton v. State

2. “A defendant has no unqualified right to file a direct appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence entered on a guilty plea, and thus, the merits of [Usman’s] appeal can be addressed only if the issues he seeks to raise can be resolved by facts appearing in the record, including the transcript of the guilty plea hearing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 330 Ga. App. 521 - Usman v. the State

3. “If a defendant moves for an out-of-time appeal after he has entered a guilty plea, he bears the burden of showing two things: first, that he actually had a right to file a timely direct appeal; and second, that the right to appeal was frustrated by the ineffective assistance of counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 Ga. App. 208 - Olguin v. State