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RENDERED: DECEMBER 1, 2006; 2:00 P.M.
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Commonwealth Of Kentucky
Court of Appeals

NO. 2005-CA-001416-MR
PAUL POWERS APPELLANT
APPEAL FROM BUTLER CIRCUIT COURT
v. HONORABLE RONNIE C. DORTCH, JUDGEACTION NO. 02-CR-00148
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY APPELLEE
OPINION AFFIRMING ** ** ** ** ** BEFORE: DIXON AND TAYLOR, JUDGES; KNOPF,1 SENIOR JUDGE. TAYLOR, JUDGE: Paul Powers brings this pro se appeal from an April 28, 2005, order of the Butler Circuit Court summarily denying his Ky. R. Crim. P. (RCr) 11.42 motion to vacate his ten-year sentence of imprisonment entered upon a guilty plea to operating a motor vehicle on a suspended license for DUI (third offense) and being a persistent felony offender in the first
1 Senior Judge William L. Knopf sitting as Special Judge by assignment of theChief Justice pursuant to Section 110(5)(b) of the Kentucky Constitution andKentucky Revised Statutes 21.580.
degree (Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) 189A.090 and KRS 532.080). We affirm.
In 2002, appellant was indicted by a Butler County Grand Jury upon one count of operating a motor vehicle on a suspended license (third offense) and one count of being a persistent felony offender in the first degree. Appellant ultimately entered a guilty plea to the above charges.
On March 16, 2005, appellant filed a motion to vacate his sentence pursuant to RCr 11.42. The circuit court denied the motion without an evidentiary hearing by order entered April 28, 2005. This appeal follows.
Appellant has raised numerous allegations of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. To prevail upon a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, movant must demonstrate that counsel

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