Opinion
CR 99-795
Opinion delivered April 20, 2000
APPEAL ERROR — MOTION FOR BELATED APPEAL — GOOD CAUSE FOR GRANTING. — An admission by an attorney for a criminal defendant that the appeal was not timely filed due to a mistake on his part is good cause to grant a belated appeal.
MOTION FOR BELATED APPEAL; GRANTED.
Norman G. Cox, Sevier County Pub. Defender, for appellant.
Mark Pryor, Att'y Gen., by: Milton O. Fine, II, Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee.
Appellant Albert Allen Dirickson, by and through his attorney, has filed a motion for belated appeal. His attorney, Norman G. Cox, admits by motion that the appeal was not timely filed due to a mistake on his part.
[1] We Rfind that such an error, admittedly made by an attorney for a criminal defendant, is good cause to grant the motion. See In Re Belated Appeals in Criminal Cases, 265 Ark. 964 (1979) (per curiam).
The motion is, therefore, granted. A copy of this opinion will be forwarded to the Committee on Professional Conduct.