Smith v. State

We affirm the trial court’s denial of appellant’s postconviction challenge to his 1986 conviction for possession of cannabis with intent to deliver. He claims that this conviction is causing deportation proceedings against him, which commenced in April 2010. He maintains that he was not advised by counsel or the court at the 1986 plea hearing, a transcript of which is now unavailable, that his plea may result in deportation, and that if he had been so advised he would not have pled to the crime. The trial court correctly denied the motion.

First, the motion was untimely, because it was outside…