Kennedy v. State

Adams, Judge.

Juan Kennedy entered a negotiated guilty plea to various offenses,1 and then timely filed a pro se direct appeal from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered on the plea. We now affirm.

Before our consideration of Kennedy’s claims, it is necessary to first examine the State’s motion to dismiss this appeal, in which it argues that there is nothing for this Court to consider in this case because Kennedy did not file and obtain a ruling on a motion to withdraw his plea, a petition for habeas corpus or a plea in arrest of judgment. It is true that a criminal defendant does not…