State v. Reid

Although I agree with the result reached by the majority, I write separately because I arrive at the same conclusion by a very different route. The majority, in my view, does not adequately consider the significant question of whether we have jurisdiction over a case in which the defendant, Mark Reid, who no longer is in the custody of the state, allowed his right of appeal to lapse nearly seven years ago. Although I ultimately agree with the majority’s conclusion that we have jurisdiction to consider the defendant’s direct appeal, I disagree with its decision *790to exercise our rarely invoked…