Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:57:57.726266+00
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Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur because defendant had no opportunity, with counsel, to file an extraordinary motion for new trial on the right to counsel ground after the grant of the out-of-time appeal. He filed his motion for an out-of-time appeal pro se, complaining that his trial attorney had failed to pursue his appeal. The court expressly granted the right to “make direct appeal” and appointed current counsel to “represent [defendant] in his appeal.”
This limitation as a matter of fact rendered absent any opportu*79nity for an extraordinary motion for new trial, even though as a matter of law, one otherwise could have been filed. OCGA § 5-5-41 (a) & (b). Compare the dissent in Kinney v. State, 199 Ga. App. 354 (405 SE2d 98) (1991).
Decided June 19, 1991.
Charles C. Grile., for appellant.
Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.