David Barnes v. Everett W. Jones, Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility and the State of New York

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves the extent of an indigent criminal defendant’s right to competent counsel on appeal from a New York State criminal conviction and the extent of his appellate counsel’s duty to raise and argue particular issues at the defendant’s request. The case arises out of the denial of a habeas petition by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Eugene H. Nickerson, Judge, in connection with appellant Barnes’s conviction of robbery in the second degree and assault in the second degree in the New York Supreme Court, Kings County,…