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ID    ORIGINAL                                                                                   02/14/2023

                 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA
                                                                                           Case Number: DA 23-0073

                                             DA 23-0073

                                                                                 FILED
      STATE OF MONTANA.
                                                                                  FEB 14 2023
                   Plaintiff and Appellee,                                      Bowen Greenwood
                                                                                   of Supreme Court
                                                                                 Stata of Montana

            v.                                                           ORDER

      TIMOTHY GENE QUIGG,

                   Defendant and Appellant.

            Timothy Gene Quigg has filed a verified Petition for an Out-of-Time Appeal, and
     he moves for appointment of counsel.
            Quigg explains that he discussed filing a timely appeal with his attorney, but that
     his attomey did not file an appeal. He adds that his counsel told him to pursue sentence
     review. He states then that he was unaware that he could appeal his sentence. Quigg
     references a cause number, DC-18-1264, from the Yellowstone County District Court.
            M. R. App. P. 4(6) allows this Court to grant an out-of-time appeal "[i]n the
     infrequent harsh case and under extraordinary circumstances amounting to a gross
     miscarriage of justice[1"
            This Court is familiar with Quigg's history. On December 21, 2018, the District
     Court accepted Quigg's guilty plea to operation of a noncommercial vehicle with an
     alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more and sentenced Quigg to the Department of
     Corrections for a five-year term on January 2, 2019.         The court ran his sentence
     consecutively to another sentence, imposed in a different case, for a similar conviction.
            In December 2022, we denied Quigg's petition for habeas corpus relief concerning
     his two 2018 convictions, where he argued that his blood was illegally drawn. Quigg v.
     Salmonsen, Cause No. OP 22-0673, Order at 1 (Mont. Dec. 13, 2022) (Quigg III). We
     stated then that:
      Quigg's instant challenge goes to his convictions. Thus, habeas corpus is the
      wrong remedy for relief. Quigg could have raised such issue several years
      ago in an appeal, but he did not do so, thereby precluding him from raising
      such challenge now. Section 46-22-101(2), MCA.

Quigg III, at 1. Quigg is time-barred to appeal his conviction and sentence. More than
four years later, he cannot now seek an appeal. He has not demonstrated extraordinary
circumstances, amounting to a gross miscarriage of justice. M. R. App. P. 4(6). Therefore,
      IT IS ORDERED that:
      1. Quigg's Petition for an Out-of-Time Appeal is DENIED;
      2. Quigg's Motion for Appointment of Counsel is DENIED, as moot; and
      3. this matter is CLOSED as of this Order's date.
      The Clerk is directed to provide a copy of this Order to counsel of record, along
with a copy of his Petition; to Victoria Callender, Yellowstone County Attorney's Office,
and to Timothy Gene Quigg personally.
      DATED this         day of February, 2023.

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