Tsai-Fen Lee v. Washington

Whether Trial Court erred in accepting defendant Tsai-Fen Lee to plead guilty when the plea was on its face equivocal.

Can Lee’s guilty plea be considered voluntary when she was deprived of liberty by her own counsel for almost 4 months?

Whether it is an effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel fails to perform basic research regarding the law.

Whether the petitioner’s constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel and due process were violated when her appellate counsel failed to utilize investigation results and failed to raise substantial claims of coercion and ineffective assistance of trial counsel in the opening brief.

Whether the denial of the petitioner’s pro se motion for reconsideration by the lower court, after ruling on the merits, warrants Supreme Court review to address the deficiencies in the appellate process.