REID v. the STATE.

Miller, Presiding Judge.

This is the second appearance of this pro se out-of-time appeal before this Court. In *91 Reid v. State , 339 Ga. App. 772 , 778, 792 S.E.2d 732 (2016) (physical precedent only), reconsideration denied (Dec. 7, 2016), cert. denied (June 5, 2017) (" Reid I "), this Court held that Reid's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea could not serve as a basis for an out-of-time appeal as it lacked merit, but that given the validity of his merger claim, an evidentiary hearing was necessary to determine if ineffective assistance of counsel caused his failure to timely appeal. On…