California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Everett, 186 Cal.App.3d 274, 230 Cal.Rptr. 604 (Cal. App. 1986):
Untimeliness does support a trial court's denial of an application for a certificate of probable cause. Nevertheless, this court would ordinarily grant relief. Otherwise, we would face the " 'inevitable collateral attack on the basis of inadequacy of counsel for not securing a certificate of probable cause....' [Citation.]" (People v. Tirado (1984) 151 Cal.App.3d 341, 348, 198 Cal.Rptr. 682.) We are more concerned with substantive denials of such applications. 2
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