No. 18-9609

Charles L. v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex

Lower Court: West Virginia
Docketed: 2019-06-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: collateral-acts collateral-acts-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense limiting-instruction sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the failure of trial counsel to request a limiting instruction related to unindicted collateral acts evidence constitute ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), when the collateral acts evidence satisfies the elements of a lesser-included offense which the jury is instructed to consider?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Does the failure of trial counsel to request a limiting instruction related to unindicted collateral acts evidence constitute ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), when the collateral acts evidence satisfies the elements of a lesser-included offense which the jury is instructed to consider? ii

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-07-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 11, 2019)

Attorneys

Charles L.
Jeremy Benjamin CooperBlackwater Law PLLC, Petitioner