Recent content by kmartin173

Plead innocent, defended myself as there were no witnesses, no evidence and my word against that of a convicted felon. No jury trial, the prosecutor and judge against me basically. Walked immediately to Circuit Court and told them I wanted to appeal my conviction in magistrate court. They...

Wouldn't they have to send me the decision within the 90 day period if they had denied the appeal and wouldn't the denial be in the circuit court record?

The only thing I did was go over and fill out the appeal paperwork and turn it in. Did this 5 minutes after the conviction in magistrate court.

She's a paralegal, exact quote she sent me: "Other than the appeal, there is nothing else in the circuit court file".

5 years later I do a background check for a job and a misdemeanor shows up that I had appealed the day after the conviction. Friend in the legal field looks the case up, sees the conviction in magistrate court, sees the appeal to circuit court and sees nothing else at all. I had figured they...