Court Opinion

ID: 9340054
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-12-16 19:45:43.459706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:57:51.125940
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Defendant attempts to appeal from a trial court order denying his motion for appropriate relief.
The record shows that on 24 October 1977, defendant entered a plea of "no contest" to armed robbery and was thereby sentenced to forty years in state prison. When, pursuant to G.S.15A-1415, defendant made a motion for appropriate relief on 17 November 1982, his right to appeal the armed robbery conviction *Page 762 
had expired. The record discloses no appeal pending on 19 May 1983, when the trial court denied defendant's motion.
The provisions of G.S. 15A-1422(c) allow appeals from a denial of a motion for appropriate relief made under G.S. 15A-1415 only if: (1) the time for appeal from a conviction has not expired or (2) an appeal is pending at the time of the ruling. The appeal, therefore, must be and is hereby dismissed. We have treated the purported appeal as a petition for the issuance of a writ of certiorari. After an examination of the record and briefs, in our discretion we deny the issuance of the writ.
Appeal dismissed.
Petition for writ of certiorari denied.
Judges JOHNSON and EAGLES concur. *Page 763