Norman Elmer Miller v. J.C. Keeney, Superintendent

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that appellate counsel meets objective standards of competence and does not cause prejudice when he or she does not raise a “weak issue”
• recognizing that appellate counsel meets objective standards of competence and does not cause prejudice when he or she does not raise a 'weaµ issue'
• holding that “the fourteenth amendment does not require a state to provide any counsel to a defendant seeking to file a certiorari petition in the United States Supreme Court”
• holding that advising the defendant about discretionary review is not required because the “opportunity for direct appeal, and thus the defendant’s constitutional right to counsel, has come to an end”
• holding that Torna barred ineffective assistance claim based on appointed direct appellate counsel’s incorrect advice not to file a discretionary petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court
• explaining that appellate counsel does not perform 22 ineffectively by declining to raise a weak issue on appeal

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