Sanders v. State

This is an appeal from an order denying an application for post-conviction relief. We affirm the order.

Following his plea of guilty to second degree murder, Robert Sanders received an indeterminate life sentence. Three years after the judgment of conviction was entered he filed an application under I.C. § 19-4901 for post-conviction relief.' In his application, Sanders alleged that he had received ineffective assistance of counsel when his attorney, a public defender, failed to prosecute a direct appeal from the judgment of conviction. 1 He sought an appropriate order from the court that…