STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. DONNELL JONES
A-3396-14T3
Defendant's post-conviction relief petition, asserting his attorney's failure to file a direct appeal, was denied. There being no dispute defendant requested an appeal after judgment was entered, prejudice should have been presumed and the PCR judge should not have assessed the merit of the arguments defendant would have pursued had his appeal not been negligently forfeited. The court allowed defendant forty-five days to appeal the three-year-old judgment of conviction.
