When trial counsel acts ineffectiveness in failing to initiate a requested appeal leaves a defendant without appellate counsel, can delays and missteps in seeking postconviction relief be attributed to the unrepresented defendant so as to deny reinstatement of his appeal?

QUESTION PRESENTED , When trial counsel acts ineffectiveness in failing to initiate a requested appeal leaves a defendant without appellate counsel, can delays and missteps in seeking postconviction relief be attributed to the | unrepresented defendant so as to deny reinstatement of his appeal? The court below, applying laches, answered in the affirmative. ;