Court Opinion

ID: 9575358
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:13:18.154032+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:48:09.182908
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
On motion for rehearing, appellant calls to our attention that he had filed both a direct appeal and a discretionary appeal with this court and that earlier this court granted appellant’s application for discretionary review. The trial court forwarded to us the direct appeal. Due to an administrative error by the clerk of the trial court, the discretionary appeal was only transmitted to us after the decision was rendered in the instant case, we having by then deemed the discretionary appeal abandoned. Appellant’s discretionary appeal has now been dismissed as improvidently granted and this decision on appellant’s direct appeal remains unchanged. In order to more easily understand the apparent paradox in this court’s handling of appellant’s two methods of appeal, we call attention to the fact that generally discretionary appeals will be granted by this court only when reversible error appears to exist or when the establishment of a precedent is desirable. See Rule 25 of the Rules of The Supreme Court.

Motion for rehearing denied.