Does a petitioner have a constitutional right to appointment counsel for the purposes of a collateral attack on a conviction?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from United States v. Crow, CASE NO. 1:17-CR-00242-LJO-SKO-1 (E.D. Cal. 2019):
There is no constitutional right to appointment of counsel for petitioners making a collateral attack on a conviction. See Pennsylvania v. Finley, 481 U.S. 551, 555 (1987) ("we have never held that prisoners have a constitutional right to counsel when mounting collateral attacks
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