CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted certiorari to consider whether defense counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from a criminal conviction has a constitutional duty to raise every nonfrivolous issue requested by the defendant.
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In 1976, Richard Butts was robbed at knifepoint by four men in the lobby of an apartment building; he was badly
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