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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


Certiorari denied · March 23, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. 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?

  2. 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

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
19A760

Proceedings

  1. Mar 23 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 04 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
  3. Mar 03 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Florida Department of Corrections, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Feb 25 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 30, 2020)
  5. Jan 10 2020
    Application (19A760) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until February 25, 2020.
  6. Jan 06 2020
    Application (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.