No. 18-8689

Joel Glaston Muir v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al.

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2019-04-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: clear-record constitutional-rights criminal-homicide criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel known-eyewitness legal-review lesser-degree-homicide postconviction-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review trial-counsel trial-strategy
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-06-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : . QUESTION S PRESENTED FOR REVIEW . 1. Whether review counsel provided ineffective ° assistance where counsel failed in the most basic sense to litigate a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel that: (a) petitioner expressly indicated should be raised, or (b) was prominent in the discovery of the defense file, or (c) was clear and obvious in the record. 2, Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance where counsel failed to investigate and interview a known eyewitness whose written police . ; . interview evidences support for trial counsel to have chosen a different trial . ‘strategy, and for jurors to have convicted of a lesser degree of criminal homicide.

Docket Entries

2019-06-10
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/6/2019.
2019-03-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 6, 2019)

Attorneys

Joel G. Muir
Joel Glaston Muir — Petitioner