A defendant who pleaded no contest to a robbery charge after being given incorrect information should be allowed to withdraw his plea, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Wednesday.
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Wis. justices allow lawyer to break attorney-client privilege
An Eau Claire criminal defense attorney who sent a letter to a judge containing information normally protected by attorney-client privilege did not violate any ethical rules, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Read More »US Supreme Court beefs up standard for ineffective assistance appeals
Federal courts taking up ineffective assistance-based appeals involving plea bargains must apply a “doubly deferential” standard of review that gives significant weight to state court determinations, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, reversing a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Burt v. Titlow, No. 12-414.
Read More »Procedural default not a bar to ineffective assistance claim, justices rule
A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a procedural default in state court did not bar a Texas death row inmate from seeking relief in federal court based on the assertion that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel at sentencing.
Read More »US high court asks when procedural defaults bar ineffective assistance claims
Less than a year after creating a narrow right to make a federal ineffective assistance of counsel claim in a post-conviction proceeding despite a procedural default in state court, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tried to carve out the contours of that ruling during oral arguments in Trevino v. Thaler.
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2011AP2195 State v. Landrum
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2011AP1285-CR State v. Scott
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10-3550 Woolley v. Rednour
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2011AP1963 State v. McCredie
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2011AP689-CR State v. Conyers
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2011AP2741-CR State v. Pelestor-Jimenez
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2012AP229-CR State v. Felton
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10-3550 Woolley v. Rednour
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2011AP1397-CR State v. Crisler
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2011AP642 State v. Flynn
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2011AP2059-CR State v. Seymour
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2011AP1619-CR State v. Laboy
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2011AP894-CR State v. Freeman
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2011AP1264-CR State v. Gardner
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2011AP2366-CR State v. Hills
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2011AP2845 State v. Truss
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2012AP128-CR, 2012AP129-CR State v. Guttu
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2012AP174-CR State v. Depaoli
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2012AP176-CR State v. Paulson
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2012AP358-CR State v. Ross
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2011AP2391-CR State v. Hill
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2011AP2851-CR State v. Young
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2011AP1837 State v. Oswald
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2011AP2767-CR, 2011AP2768-CR State v. Moore
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2011AP2818 State v. Powell
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