Darrell Windell Childs v. James A. Collins, Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

How courts have described this case

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• denying ineffective assistance claim where the defendant failed to communicate to counsel his desire to appeal his criminal conviction
• an appeal is a positive right in that an appellant may not let the matter rest and then claim that he did not waive his right to appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).