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Keith Inchierchiere v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 19-12468 · judgment September 26, 2019
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Does a defendant receive ineffective assistance of counsel where his retained attorney fails to appear on the first day of trial, and, after receiving misadvice regarding his sentencing exposure from a public defender previously assigned to the case, the defendant takes a guilty plea that results in a seventy-year term of incarceration?
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Does a defendant receive ineffective assistance of counsel where a public defender advises him that he will receive a fifteen-year term of imprisonment if he pleads guilty but life imprisonment if he goes to trial, and, relying on that advice, the defendant enters a guilty plea that results in a sentence of seventy years of incarceration?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Andrew Brooks Greenlee
For respondent
Celia A. Terenzio
Proceedings
- Mar 23 2020Petition DENIED.
- Mar 04 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
- Mar 03 2020Waiver of right of respondent Florida Department of Corrections, et al. to respond filed.
- Feb 25 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 30, 2020)
- Jan 10 2020Application (19A760) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until February 25, 2020.
- Jan 06 2020Application (19A760) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 26, 2020 to February 25, 2020, submitted to Justice Thomas.