In re Rebideau

Petitioner requests that this Court take a step beyond our holding today in In re Savo, 139 Vt. 527, 431 A.2d 482 (1981), in dealing with claims of ineffective counsel in criminal cases. Convicted of murder in the first degree, petitioner moved for post-conviction relief or, alternatively, a new trial. He claimed the prosecutor knowingly used perjured testimony and suppressed certain exculpatory evidence. From a denial of that motion in superior court, petitioner requested his attorney to appeal. Due to an error by the Defender General’s staff, the motion to appeal was untimely. Accordingly,…