State v. Evans

¶ 69. (dissenting). Enough already! I get it. Defendants should use habeas to claim ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. If they do not, their claim is dismissed, and they have to start anew with a petition for a writ of habeas.

¶ 70. The defendant alleged ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, namely that counsel failed to proceed with the appeal based on circuit court errors that trial counsel had preserved. The majority opinion fixates on the issue of the necessity of claiming ineffective assistance of appellate counsel by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to…