Adkins v. Dixon

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• holding that it is proper to sustain a demurrer if the legal malpractice plaintiff fails to satisfy this \material consideration\
• holding that actual guilt is a material consideration on issue of proximate cause
• for a legal malpractice claim in a criminal matter, “the statute of limitations does not begin to run until termination of the post-conviction proceeding”
• criminal defendant precluded from bringing malpractice action against attorney because he had not been granted post-conviction relief, despite fact that post-conviction relief was unavailable because attorney failed to raise certain issues in direct appeal
• criminal defendant precluded from bringing malpractice action against attorney because he had not been granted post-conviction relief, despite fact that post-conviction relief was unavailable because attorney failed to raise certain issues in direct appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).