Wright v. State

MANN, Judge.

As he does so often, usually with justification, the Public Defender assigned to represent indigents in this District has filed a brief alleging that there is no arguable merit in this appeal, citing only Anders v. California, 1967, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493. It is time to remind the bar that in Anders the Supreme Court of the United States reversed a decision of the Supreme Court of California because arguable issues had not been argued. The distinction is simple: counsel’s job is not to tell us that the appeal is without merit. That is judges’ work. The…