Jones v. Commonwealth

LESTER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Jefferson Circuit Court which overruled appellant’s RCr 11.42 motion concerning several criminal convictions.

Mr. Jones seeks to have four convictions set aside on the grounds that the guilty pleas he entered on those indictments were not knowing and voluntary. As to the fifth conviction, appellant claims he was denied effective assistance of counsel due to his attorney’s failure to appeal from that judgment.

Regarding the four convictions based on guilty pleas, appellant had once before been to this Court on an RCr 11.42 motion. On March…