Dallas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “I am constrained to observe further that the ineffective assistance of counsel claims in the now pending federal habe-as corpus petition seem worthy of consideration if the federal court can reach the merits. Dallas raised these same claims in his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition in state court. After the state trial court heard and denied the Rule 32 petition, Dallas’s Rule 32 counsel missed the appeal deadline, and the Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed Dallas’s appeal. After Dallas then obtained a declaration by the trial court that the appeal time had been tolled during the pendency of a post-denial motion, Dallas refiled his appeal of the denial, but the Court of Criminal Appeals again dismissed the appeal as untimely. When Dallas petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the latter dismissal of the refiled appeal, this Court denied certiorari review because Dallas’s Rule 32 counsel had violated Rule 40(d)(1), Ala. R.App. P., by failing to file a timely application for rehearing before the Court of Criminal Appeals on the issue of its dismissal of the refiled appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 410 F. Supp. 2d 1120 - Barbour v. Haley