In re Tracey B.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “We distinguished counsel’s failure to file a Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) statement, occasioning waiver of all claims for purposes of appeal, from a failure to preserve particular claims; we held the first constitutes ineffectiveness per se, while the second does not[.]”
• internal citations and quotation marks omitted. In particular, the Supreme Court has focused on both the complete and constructive denial of an accused’s constitutional right to a direct appeal. In Commonwealth v. Lantzy, 736 A.2d 564, 571 (Pa. 1999
• counsel filed brief addressing only unpreserved issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).