Finley v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This appeal arises from appellant’s request for post-conviction relief from a jury verdict on July 18, 1984, finding him guilty of burglary and theft charges, and another conviction judgment dated September 7, 1984, which resulted from appellant’s pleas of guilty to four additional counts of burglary and theft charges. The trial court rejected appellant’s contentions that he had been wrongfully denied the procedural safeguards of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act (IAD Act) and that his counsel had been ineffective by failing to invoke the IAD Act before and at the…