Big Daddy Bail Bonding, Inc. v. State of Arkansas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a refusal of appointed counsel to properly pursue an appeal, coupled with the refusal of the court to appoint substitute counsel, amounted to a denial of fundamental due process
• holding that an attorney who believes appeal would be frivolous must inform the court and file a brief identifying arguably appealable matters in the record
• holding that “if counsel finds his case to be wholly frivolous, after a conscientious examination of it, he should advise the court and request permission to withdraw”
• holding that when counsel determines that a criminal defendant’s case is “wholly frivolous,” counsel must “so advise the court and request permission to withdraw”
• holding that a court reviewing an Anders brief is required to fully examine “all the proceedings”
• holding that the appellant “must demonstrate that the issues are debatable among jurists of reason.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).