to release Nelson's money paid as costs, fees, and restitution. II. The State's Appellate Process Must Comport 'with Due Process. 158 This case stands at the confluence of the legislature's choice to provide appellate review of convictions and its choice to collect money from defendants before convictions are final. Though the Supreme Court has said the federal Constitution guarantees no right to an appeal, see McKane v. Durston, 153 U.S. 684, 687, 14 S.Ct. 913, 38 L.Ed. 867 (1894), when the legislature creates one, as Colorado has done, see § 16-12-101, C.R.S. (2015), a criminal defendant is entitled to due process throughout the appeal. Hoang v. People, 2014 CO 27, 1139, 323 P.3d 780, 788; see also, e.g., Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 396, 105 S.Ct. 830, 83 LEd.2d 821 (1985) (<HOLDING>). Knowing this, the legislature might have
holding a criminal defendant has the right to effective assistance of counsel during a plea process holding that defendants are entitled to effective assistance of appellate counsel on their first appeal as of right holding that when a state provides a first appeal as of right due process requires that defendants receive the effective assistance of counsel during that appeal holding that the due process clause requires that criminal defendants be provided the effective assistance of counsel on their first appeal of right but declining to devise the means by which to define the appropriate standards for judging claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel holding the sixth amendment right to effective assistance extends to a criminal defendants first appeal as of right