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Bilal Hamid Love v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 20-60835 · judgment May 25, 2021
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and counsel who has filed here before.
Question presented
Is defense counsel required, in order to provide effective assistance of counsel, to give the defendant an estimate of the potential guideline sentence he is facing in advising the defendant on whether to enter a plea of guilty to Federal criminal charges? Is defense counsel ineffective when counsel fails and refuses to give a defendant any estimate of the various potential guideline sentences depending on whether he pleads guilty or goes to trial?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Gary Alan Udashen
Gary A. Udashen
For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 12, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 12 2021Petition DENIED.
- Sep 15 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
- Sep 10 2021Waiver of right of respondent of America, United States to respond filed.
- Aug 19 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 22, 2021)