Christopher Allen v. Jack Duckworth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a habeas claim based on the state court’s delay in resolving an appeal became moot when the state court decided the appeal
• noting that a state is not permitted “with one hand to grant [the right to an appeal] and with the other to take it away in an arbitrary fashion”
• assuming excessive delay in appeal can violate due process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).