Opinion ID: 1368663
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Heading: Failure of appellate counsel to appeal the sentence.

Text: We find no argument whatsoever in petitioner's brief to the Court of Appeals or in his petition for review in this court to support the contention that his appellate counsel should have appealed his sentence. At the time petitioner's appeal was taken, he could have appealed from a sentence which was cruel, unusual or excessive in light of the nature and background of the offender or the facts and circumstances of the offense. Former ORS 138.040 and 138.050. There is absolutely no evidence in this record from which the post-conviction court could find that sentence appeal by this petitioner would have had the remotest chance of success. What evidence is in the record is overwhelmingly to the contrary. If by this contention petitioner is relying on the alleged failure of his criminal trial counsel to advise him of the possibility of a minimum sentence, he loses on that factual issue as explained above.