Dickerson v. State

OPINION

This is a proper person appeal from an order of the district court granting the state’s motion to dismiss appellant’s post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus. For the following reasons, we affirm the district court’s order.

Appellant was convicted on September 27, 1995, of second degree murder and was sentenced to life in the Nevada State Prison with the possibility of parole. On February 27, 1997, almost seventeen months after the entry of the judgment of conviction, appellant filed a notice of appeal from the judgment. He also sought leave to file a belated appeal…