Commonwealth v. Knighten

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when a petitioner fails to meet his burden of proving that he asked counsel to file an appeal and that counsel disregarded that request, the post-conviction request for reinstatement of appellate rights must be denied
• counsel not ineffective for failing to appeal where defendant did not request appeal
• abrogated by Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).