Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit April 5, 1999, Docket 97-2966 (Kevin McHale v. United States)

JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to consider the procedure we should follow when an appeal from a criminal conviction is dismissed because the defendant’s counsel, after filing a notice of appeal, fails to perfect the appeal, and the defendant thereafter attempts to litigate his counsel’s defective representation.