Duncan v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

This appeal presents the second appearance of the case before this Court. In the first appeal, we remanded the case to the Butts County Superior Court to rule on Douglas Duncan’s motion for an out-of-time appeal of his 1988 convictions. The trial court held an evidentiary hearing, considered the record, and found that Duncan’s actions in relieving his counsel of further representation duties and accepting punishment for 18 years before seeking an appeal resulted in a voluntary waiver of his right to appeal. Duncan appeals the trial court’s denial of his request for an…