Freeman v. United States

OBERLY, Associate Judge:

Seventeen years after he was convicted of first-degree murder and other armed offenses in connection with a road-rage *435incident, Gary Freeman’s convictions were vacated and re-entered to permit him to note an appeal because his trial counsel had failed to do so after Mr. Freeman was sentenced in 1993. Unfortunately, the trial transcripts from Mr. Freeman’s 1992 trial were no longer available when his motion for appointment of counsel was finally granted, and upon receipt of Mr. Freeman’s notice of appeal, this court remanded the case to the trial court to permit Mr.…