Jones v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseTracy Jones, who pleaded guilty to murder and other offenses, filed a motion for out-of-time appeal, claiming that her plea counsel abandoned her after sentencing and that her right to appeal was thereby frustrated. The trial court denied Jones’s motion on the basis that she did not allege that her failure to file a timely appeal was due to ineffective assistance of counsel. But the Georgia Supreme Court concluded, after review of the trial court record, that she did sufficiently state such an allegation in her pro se motion, so the Court vacated and remanded for a hearing as to whether counsel’s ineffectiveness in fact frustrated her right to appeal.
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