Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Ineffective Assistance Ruling, Based on Failure to Seek Manslaughter Sentence, Reversed at Fifth Circuit

Originally published by John Council.

 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a decision throwing out a Texas prisoner’s life sentence, which a judge below based on the fact that his lawyer failed to ask a jury to consider a manslaughter conviction carrying a maximum 20-year sentence.
      

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