State v. Johnson

OAKS, Justice:

After convictions for the crimes of burglary and uttering a forged prescription, defendant was sentenced on January 19, 1981, to terms in the Utah penitentiary. He alleges that within the statutory period for appeal he requested, and his retained counsel agreed, to file a notice of appeal, but counsel failed to do so. When he learned that counsel had not filed the notice, defendant contacted a lawyer with the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association— still within the statutory period for appeal — to request that he file a notice of appeal, but through some misunderstanding this was…