Giles v. State

JOINER, Judge.

Patrick Maurice Giles appeals the summary dismissal, by the Montgomery Circuit Court, of his second petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., in which he alleged, among other things, that he was entitled to an out-of-time appeal of the dismissal of his first Rule 32 petition.

Giles pleaded guilty in May 2015 to first-degree robbery, see § 13A-8-41, Ala. Code 1975; he was sentenced to 240 months' imprisonment for that conviction. Giles filed the instant Rule 32 petition, his second, on May 12, 2016, and asserted several grounds for relief.…