304 Ga. App. 645 - Belcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “A defendant who has pled guilty to a crime may obtain an out-of-time appeal only if the issues he seeks to raise can be resolved by facts appearing on the record and if his failure to seek a timely appeal was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel. Where the record shows that the attacks on the guilty plea that a defendant seeks to raise in an out-of-time appeal are without merit, trial counsel cannot have been ineffective in failing to pursue such an appeal, and a trial court thus does not err in denying an out-of-time appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 329 Ga. App. 10 - Martin v. the State

2. “a defendant’s otherwise voluntary guilty plea is not invalidated merely because the range of punishment on the plea was never recited to him, when he makes no claim that he was disadvantaged by the omission or even that he was in fact unaware of the possible sentence which could be imposed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reid v. the State