No. 18-7947

Tyrone Garden v. Massachusetts

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2019-02-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-right criminal-procedure dispositive-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-motion pretrial-motions sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2019-03-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant pleaded guilty, did Garden have the effective assistance of counsel required by Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant , pleaded guilty did Garden have the effective assistance of counsel required by Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)?

Docket Entries

2019-03-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
2019-02-22
Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts to respond filed.
2018-10-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 15, 2019)

Attorneys

Massachusetts
Randall Evan RavitzMassachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Randall Evan RavitzMassachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Tyrone Garden
Tyrone Garden — Petitioner
Tyrone Garden — Petitioner