California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Seumanu, 192 Cal.Rptr.3d 195, 355 P.3d 384, 61 Cal.4th 1293 (Cal. 2015):
delays occur when this court locates and appoints qualified counsel for habeas corpus, allows ample time for counsel to prepare a petition, and then evaluates the resulting petition and successive petitions. But such delays are the product of a constitutional safeguard, not a constitutional defect [citations], because [they] assure[ ] careful review of the defendant's conviction and sentence. (People v. Anderson, supra, 25 Cal.4th at p. 606, 106 Cal.Rptr.2d 575, 22 P.3d 347.)
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