State v. Nicholls

Opinion

ROTH, Judge:

¶1 Craig Duncan Nicholls filed a Manning motion in district court seeking to reinstate the time to directly appeal the murder conviction entered against him after a guilty plea. The court determined that Nicholls had already exhausted his right to a direct appeal and denied the motion, which he appeals. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

' ¶2 This ’case comes to' us on a long and varied procedural history involving multiple appellate and postconviction proceedings. We first recount the general background before moving to the particular circumstances that led to this appeal.

General Case…