Morgan v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAppellant Jeffery Morgan was convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellant subsequently filed a petition to correct an illegal sentence, alleging that the evidence in the court proceedings showed that he had released the victim in a safe place and that he should therefore have been convicted of no more than a Class B felony. The petition, however, was not timely filed. The trial court dismissed the petition, finding that Appellant's constitutional rights had not been violated. The Supreme Court dismissed Appellant's appeal and declared the motion related to that appeal moot, as Appellant's petition, filed almost seven years after the sentence was imposed and the mandate issued, was well outside of the requisite period.
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