In Re Gray

Opinion

SCOTLAND, P. J.

This matter has taken a circuitous route back to this court because of defendant David Earl Gray’s failure to follow the Sacramento County Superior Court’s directions regarding the filing of a notice of appeal from a judgment against him in a criminal case, and the trial judge’s insistence that defendant could not file his notice of appeal with the trial judge’s courtroom clerk instead of with the “Appeals Unit” of the court clerk’s office as directed by the court’s Web site.

The matter was previously before us when, after the jury had returned a verdict finding him…