Burns v. State

Benham, Justice.

In February 2003, appellant Leviticus Burns entered a negotiated guilty plea to a murder charge stemming from his indictment for the October 2001 shooting death of Reginald Berry. Appellant’s other charges were placed on a dead docket, and he was sentenced to life in prison for murder. In May 2011, appellant moved for an out-of-time appeal which motion the trial court denied. Appellant timely appealed, and we now affirm for the reasons set forth below.

1. “[A] criminal defendant has no unqualified right to file a direct appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence entered…