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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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