Tennessee Supreme Court· 9/23/2004

Stokes v. State

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146 S.W.3d 56
2004 Tenn. LEXIS 829
2004 WL 2113038

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holding that there is no right to the effective assistance of counsel on post-conviction and that counsel’s failure to seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court was not a due process violation
declining to “extend the right to a delayed appeal” to second-tier review of a denial of post-conviction relief
failure of post-conviction counsel to file application for permission to appeal not ground for granting delayed appeal
“[B]ecause there is no constitutional right to counsel in post-conviction proceedings . . . ‘there is no constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in post- conviction proceedings.’”
“All that due process requires in the post- conviction setting is that the defendant have ‘the opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.’”
No Tenn.R.App. P. 11 application filed

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Judges: Justice William M. Barker

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