Mark L. Jordan v. State of Indiana

OPINION

BAKER, Judge.

In this case, before a criminal defense attorney could file a notice of appeal on behalf of his client, he was fighting for his life against a recurrence of cancer to which he succumbed only a few months later. His client, appellant-petitioner Mark Jordan, who had been ill-informed and apparently mistaken regarding the details and status of his appeal, filed a petition for relief under Indiana Post-Conviction Rule 2, seeking to file a belated appeal. The trial court denied this petition without a hearing or specific findings.

We conclude that this was error, inasmuch as…