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Your remedy is not an appeal, but a motion to withdraw your plea based on new evidence. A motion to withdraw must be made within 180 days of being placed on probation. If that period has expired, your remedy is a writ of error corum nobis. I recommend you consult with experienced local counsel.

If an attorney is withdrawing from representing you, they need to inform you of that. If your attorney has appeared in court on your matter, then they also need to inform the court that they are withdrawing as representation, which is done on the record at court, in order to be relieved as counsel, and so another attorney can then substitute in as counsel. Perhaps your attorney is in trial on another matter and will respond soon. If you emailed your attorney twice today and have not heard back, then there certainly can be many good reasons for the delayed response. Have you tried calling her? That is generally a good idea before assuming that she is quitting on you. That being said if you have called her and emailed her 10 times over the past several weeks and have not heard back, then there is likely an issue somewhere. ...and there is a wide range of variant situations between those two. I would recommend at least calling her office if you would like to speak to her.

By filing a timely appeal with the next level appellate court. You will be wasting time and money doing so, unless you have valid grounds and basis to do so. That means being able to show the writ court make a mistake of fact or law in their decision, not simply that you aren't happy with their decision.