Commonwealth v. Conceicao

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an indigent defendant does not have an absolute right to appointed counsel in preparing or presenting a motion for a new trial
• assessing evidence of process involved in photographic identification to hold that motion to suppress would have been unsuccessful
• noting in context of motions for new trial that \indigent defendants do not have an absolute right to have counsel appointed to represent them in all postconviction proceedings\
• treating judge’s decision to decline to act as effectively denying motion
• no absolute right to appointed counsel in obtaining postconviction relief under Mass. R. Crim. P. 30, as appearing in 435 Mass. 1501 [2001]
• no absolute right to appointed counsel in obtaining postconviction relief under Mass. R. Crim. R 30, as appearing in 435 Mass. 1501 [2001]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).