Commonwealth v. Bath

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the petitioner must demonstrate a duty to consult and that he was prejudiced by counsel’s failure to fulfill this duty
• holding that it is not per se ineffectiveness when counselfails to consult with the defendant concerning the potential advantages of filing a petition for allowance of appeal
• holding that the defendant failed to prove a duty to consult regarding an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court when he did not demonstrate any non-frivolous, non-waived issues
• discussing appellate counsel ineffectiveness for failing to consult with litigant regarding further review with our Supreme Court
• finding defendant failed to show nonfrivolous grounds for appeal where only issues were sufficiency of evidence and issues that were not preserved at trial
• “an appellant may establish a duty to consult by indicating issues that had any potential merit for further review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).