Defendant filed a cross-appeal on December 13. In this case, notwithstanding the trial court's purported allowance of the new trial motion by way of letter opinion within 20 days of judgment, the written order allowing the motion was not entered within 20 days. We therefore dismiss the state's appeal as untimely. We next address whether the cross-appeal should also be dismissed. The state argues that there is no statutory basis for the cross-appeal.
Defendant concedes that dismissal is appropriate.
That concession is well taken. We also deny as moot defendant's alternative motion to treat defendant's notice of cross-appeal as a designation of additional proceedings. Return to previous location . Return to previous location . Return to previous location .