Case ID: so2d_534/html/0381-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robert J. OROZCO v. STATE.
    4 Div. 78.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
    Sept. 20, 1988.
    C. Bruce Adams, Dothan, for appellant.
    Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Gilda B. Williams, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
   TAYLOR, Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a Rule 20 petition, Ala.Temp.R.Crim.P. In that petition, appellant requests that he be granted an out-of-time appeal.

The state, in its brief, recognizes the well-established rule set out in Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 (1956), that an indigent defendant has a constitutional right to appeal, to have competent representation on appeal, and to have a free transcript on appeal. The state further recognizes that “the traditional relief available on coram nobis [since replaced by Rule 20 petitions] has been expanded to include a belated or out of time appeal where necessary to insure justice and fairness. Longmire v. State, 443 So.2d 1265 (Ala.1982); Brown v. State, 460 So.2d 263 (Ala.Cr.App.1984).” Jones v. State, 495 So.2d 722, 723-24 (Ala.Cr.App.1986). The state, as does this court, considers the facts in the instant case more deserving than the ones in Jones, supra, for an out-of-time appeal. Therefore, the state, in effect concedes this point.

Accordingly, this cause is reversed and remanded with instructions that appellant be granted an out-of-time appeal and that a transcript be ordered and counsel appointed.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

All the Judges concur.