Keith S. Betts v. Jon E. Litscher

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a failure to comply with the procedures set forth in Anders and McCoy “could be saved only if [the defendant] actually waived his right to the assistance of counsel”
• in deciding the appeal, the state appellate court did not consider the merits brief filed by the appellate attorney before the attorney withdrew
• \There is scant evidence of waiver .... [T]he state court did not hold a hearing or use any other procedure to ascertain the truth.\
• \The Constitution does not permit a state to ensnare an unrepresented defendant in his own errors and thus foreclose access to counsel.\
• \The Constitution does not permit a state to ensnare an unrepresented defendant in his own errors and thus foreclose access to counsel.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).