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Pro Se Tips and Tactics
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2000
by John Midgley
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2000, page 11
Supreme Court on Kind and Quality of Appellate Counsel
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Appointment of Counsel,
Attorney Client,
Appeals,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
United States of America.
by John Midgley
In three recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the kind and quality of representation to which people are entitled on appeal of their criminal convictions. If your conviction is on appeal (or should have been appealed but …
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