In re Stevens

This is an appeal from a May 19, 1986, order of the Chittenden Superior Court, denying the defendant’s petition for post-conviction relief pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 7131. The issue *200raised on appeal concerns defendant’s decision not to withdraw his plea of nolo contendere. However, defendant failed to make a timely notice of appeal; accordingly, we do not have jurisdiction to decide this appeal. See State v. Savo, 136 Vt. 330, 388 A.2d 391 (1978).

Defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to aggravated assault on February 23, 1984, in Chittenden District Court, and the court accepted the plea.…