Court Opinion

ID: 9455824
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:34:38.651561+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:45.096437
License: Public Domain

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the result. I believe the failure of defendant’s counsel to perfect an appeal by following the simple procedures mandated by § 793.4 of the Iowa Code, including service of the notice of appeal upon adverse counsel, deprived defendant of effective assistance of counsel within the rule of Williams v. United States, 402 F.2d 548, 552 (8th Cir. 1968), and I affirm solely on that ground. I am not, however, prepared to say in this case that the prosecutor’s failure to guide or correct defense attorney’s steps in taking an appeal contributed to an invasion of the defendant’s constitutional rights. The duty to take and perfect an appeal on behalf of the client rested upon the defendant’s counsel.