Romano v. State

Hines, Presiding Justice.

On July 18, 1997, Joseph Victor Romano pled guilty to two charges of malice murder and was sentenced to two concurrent terms of life in prison. Romano then moved to withdraw his guilty pleas, and this Court affirmed the trial court’s denial of that motion. See Romano v. State, 272 Ga. 238 (527 SE2d 184) (2000).

On October 7, 2014, Romano filed in the trial court a motion for an out-of-time appeal, which the trial court denied. As we have previously noted,

[a]n out-of-time appeal is a judicial creation that serves as the remedy for a frustrated right of appeal. [Cit.] It…