David Glen Nunnery v. Paul Edward Nunnery

¶23. I believe that Varas sufficiently demonstrated that the failure to file his clients’ notice of appeal within the proscribed time was due to “excusable neglect,” and I also believe the trial court erred when it denied Varas’s motion for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal. Because the majority holds otherwise, I respectfully dissent,

¶24. As the majority correctly notes, we generally review a trial court’s grant or denial of a motion for an extension of time to file á notice of appeal for an abuse of discretion.1 But what the majority fails adequately to acknowledge is that,…