Mercade v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defining a frivolous claim as one that is so devoid of merit on its face that there is little prospect that it can ever succeed
• ‘“A frivolous appeal is not merely one that is likely to be unsuccessful. It is one that is so readily recognizable as devoid of merit on the face of the record that there is little, if any, prospect whatsoever that it can ever succeed.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).