State v. Bolding

OPINION

ESPINOSA, Judge.

¶ 1 The State of Arizona has filed a motion pursuant to A.R.S. § 13-4033(0) to dismiss defendant Edward Bowing’s appeal of criminal convictions from a December 2008 jury trial. We are asked to decide whether § 13-4033(C), which bars a defendant from appealing a final judgment of conviction if the defendant by his absence has delayed sentencing for longer than ninety days, applies to a person who committed offenses before the effective date of this subsection of the statute but was tried and found guilty after that date. Although we conclude the statute applies to…