Homer Aki Mathis v. David Hood, Superintendent, Otisville Correctional Facility

How courts have described this case

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• requiring “some showing of prejudice to the appeal” before a court can grant immediate habeas relief
• suggesting, in dicta, that there “could” be certain “attorney conflicts of interest” constituting “per se violation[s] of the [S]ixth [A]mendment right to counsel”
• finding actual conflict of interest in lawyer's representation of defendant during appeal where defendant filed a grievance with disciplinary committee prior to appeal due to attorney's delay in filing appellate brief
• finding actual conflict of interest in lawyer's representation of defendant during appeal where defendant filed a grievance with disciplinary committee prior to appeal due to attorney's delay in filing appellate brief
• denying relief from a state court conviction despite finding a due process violation because it took six years for the state courts to rule on the petitioner’s appeal, as the petitioner failed to demonstrate prejudice
• noting “appellate delay by itself” is not “grounds for habeas relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).