State v. Collins

Chief Justice DURRANT,

opinion of the Court:

Introduction

T 1 In this case we are asked to clarify the nature of a defendant's burden of proof in seeking reinstatement of the right to appeal. Here, defendant Robert Collins failed to appeal his convictions within the thirty-day *792deadline for filing a notice of appeal. Approximately two years after the deadline, he filed a motion for reinstatement of his right to appeal and argued that our decision in Manning v. State1 and rule 4(f) of the Utah Rules of Appellate Procedure required the court to reinstate his appeal because neither his counsel nor…