What is the test for relief from a criminal judgment?
The following excerpt is from In re Aranda, 789 F.3d 48 (2nd Cir. 2015):
4 See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967) (requiring, in an appeal from a criminal judgment, that a defense attorney who believes that his client's appeal would be frivolous must, inter alia, move to be relieved on that basis and brief all arguably meritorious appellate issues).
4 See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967) (requiring, in an appeal from a criminal judgment, that a defense attorney who believes that his client's appeal would be frivolous must, inter alia, move to be relieved on that basis and brief all arguably meritorious appellate issues).
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