Long v. State

The appellant, Thomas Wayne Long, appeals an order of the trial court denying his petition for post-conviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P. The appellant contends that the trial court erred in dismissing his petition as outside the two-year limitations period specified in Rule 32.2(c).

In his petition, the appellant asserted that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to accept the plea of guilty entered in his 1987 conviction for third degree escape because, he says, the three-day waiting period required by § 15-15-22, Code of Alabama 1975, was not complied with.

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