Cardenas v. State

On April 21, 2017, Wilfredo Cardenas filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus with this Court seeking a belated appeal. In 2014, Cardenas accepted a plea' agreement in which he pled guilty to second degree murder. The trial court sentenced Cardenas to eighteen years in prison, followed by three years of probation.

In his petition seeking a belated appeal, Cardenas asserts that, at the conclusion of his sentencing hearing, he “requested defense counsel to file a Notice of Appeal in behalf of the trial court’s order denying Defendant’s motion to suppress.” Cardenas’s defense counsel did not…