Strode v. State

The petitioner Walter Strode was found guilty by a jury of theft of property on July 19,1988. (For some reason not clear from the record, the judgment was not entered until February 25, 1989.) On August 18, 1989, Michael R. Salamo, the retained attorney who represented the petitioner at trial, filed a timely notice of appeal and designation of record. The record was never lodged on appeal. Petitioner has now lodged a partial record and filed a pro se petition for writ of certiorari in which he requests that the record be brought up for the purposes of a belated appeal. He contends that Salamo…