No. 18-8226

James Craig Bird v. Colorado

Lower Court: Colorado
Docketed: 2019-03-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole plea-bargaining prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Immigration
Latest Conference: 2019-03-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the State improperly determined the prejudice prong underlying the test set-forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1964) as to erroneous advice with respect to the parole eligibility date, which was a deprivation of the opportunity to make a reasonably informed decision on whether to accept the People's plea offer

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED oe I. Whether the State improperly determined the prejudice prong underlying the test set-forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 : U.S. 668 (1964) as to erroneous advice with respect to the parole eligibility date, which was a deprivation of the opportunity to make a reasonably informed decision on whether to accept the People’s plea offer. II. Whether the State improperly interpreted and construed this Court's holding in Hill v. Lockhart, 474 U.S. 52 (1985), with respect to the showing that but for counsel's deficient performance, a plea of not ; guilty would have been entered and the insistence that triai be held.

Docket Entries

2019-04-01
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/29/2019.
2019-03-07
Waiver of right of respondent Colorado to respond filed.
2018-10-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 1, 2019)

Attorneys

Colorado
L. Andrew CooperOffice of the Colorado Attorney General, Respondent
L. Andrew CooperOffice of the Colorado Attorney General, Respondent
James Craig Bird
James Craig Bird — Petitioner
James Craig Bird — Petitioner