Legal Opinion
Wetherington v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 2, 2015No. S14A1525PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUNSTEIN, Justice.
Appellant Michael Wetherington appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion for an out-of-time appeal from his convictions based on a guilty plea in Lowndes County. Because Appellant has not shown that he had a right to file even a timely direct appeal, we affirm the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s motion for an out-of-time appeal.
This Court recently addressed another one of Appellant’s motions for an out-of-time appeal in Wetherington v. State, 295 Ga. 172 (758 SE2d 299) (2014). In that opinion, we set forth the background of Appellant’s case as follows:
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2Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1996
- Morrow v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1995
- Grantham v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
- Stephens v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
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