Loadholt v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there can be no prejudice in a delay pending appeal where the enumerations raised on appeal are without merit
• recognizing that trial counsel’s failure to raise a meritless objection is, by definition, non-prejudicial
• discussing procedures in place at the time of Loadholt's 2000 trial
• discussing procedures in place at the time of Loadholt’s 2000 trial
• “[W]here ‘the enumerations . . . raised on appeal are without merit[,] there can therefore be no prejudice in delaying a meritless appeal.’” (citation omitted)
• bare assertions of prejudice based on the passage of time “fail[ ] to offer the specific evidence required to show that the delay has prejudiced [a defendant’s] appeal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).