Monday, August 20, 2007

Sentencing appeal frivolous

The Seventh Circuit apparently considers too many of its appeals of criminal sentences to be frivolous: “When as in this case a criminal appeal is frivolous, the defendant’s attorney should file an Anders motion rather than waste the court’s time on a lost cause. We write in the hope of heading off what is assuming the proportions of an avalanche of utterly groundless sentencing appeals.”