Mylar v. Wilkinson

How courts have described this case

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• confronting a plaintiff who had obtained post-conviction relief, but suggesting there is no difference between civil and criminal malpractice cases
• fact that convicted criminal defendant had obtained post-conviction relief not sufficient to maintain an action in legal malpractice absent showing that he would have obtained a more favorable result apart from attorney’s negligence
• dismissal for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted affirmed where plaintiff failed to allege that appellate court would have rendered a favorable decision for the client in the absence of the attorney’s negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).