People v. Teran

How courts have described this case

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• finding that on a motion to withdraw the ultimate responsibility to determine frivolity of potential issues lies with the court
• noting that the purpose of a motion to reconsider is to bring to the court’s attention “newly discovered evidence that was not available at the time of the first hearing” and not to raise “new legal theor[ies] or factual argument[s]”
• “On a motion to withdraw, the ultimate responsibility to determine the frivolity of potential issues lies with this court rather than appellate counsel.”
• “[C]ommon sense dictates that a defendant’s own affidavit is not at all objective or independent.”
• “common sense dictates that a defendant’s own affidavit is not at all objective or independent”
• “[A] nonfrivolous issue is not necessarily one that will be successful; it is merely an issue with arguable merit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).