Commonwealth v. Frank

How courts have described this case

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• noting the statutory right to direct appeal of a criminal conviction in Massachusetts
• given criminal defendant's statutory right to appeal and his constitutional right to counsel at that appeal, counsel's failure to perfect his appeal was \particularly egregious in that it essentially waived [the defendant's] opportunity to make a case on the merits\ [citation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Goewey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-10-16· cited 27×
• Goldman v. Winn
  D. Massachusetts· 2008-07-01· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-07-31· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Borders
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-01-30· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Alvarez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-06-27· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Frank
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-02-16· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Petetabella
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2010-01-08
• Doe, SORB No. 22164 v. Sex Offender Registry Board
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2023-09-28

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Douglas v. California
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-29· cited 3,330×
• Evitts v. Lucey
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-18· cited 3,068×
• Commonwealth v. Amirault
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-03-24· cited 178×
• Commonwealth v. Beauchamp
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-04-09· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Cowie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-02-13· cited 27×