Williams v. State

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

Fifteen months after his guilty plea to two separate charges of armed robbery, Bill Williams, acting pro se, filed a motion to vacate a null and void conviction and sentence. He appeals the trial court’s denial of that motion, arguing that his guilty plea was not voluntarily entered because his counsel rendered ineffective assistance and that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to consider sentencing him under the First Offender Act. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

The record shows that in August 2006, Williams was indicted on charges of…