A federal judge in Atlanta has issued a blistering order threatening to go forward with a habeas corpus petition from a state inmate unable to appeal his life sentence because a posttrial motion has languished for 14 years in Fulton County Superior Court. 

In an an order handed down Wednesday, U.S. District Senior Judge Charles Pannell said defendant Mannoleto Patrick’s desire to appeal his 2006 robbery and carjacking convictions has been stymied by “an incomplete [trial] transcript, a merry-go-round of appointed lawyers, and no viable explanation for the continuing lack of action.”

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