Wrenn v. State

On September 8,2003, judgment was entered reflecting that Michael A. Wrenn had been found guilty in a jury trial of three counts of domestic battering and sentenced to three concurrent terms of 240 months’ imprisonment. The public defender who had represented Wrenn was .reheved as counsel on September 9, 2003. In the order, the trial court held that Wrenn was indigent and that the appellate court should bear the cost of the appellate attorney’s fee because the public defender’s office could not handle appellate work without seriously compromising its ability to handle trial work. In an…