No. 19-5290

Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-07-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was not debatable, despite uncontroverted evidence that would make the attorney's credibility, or any deference to it, completely impossible

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . Where deference is the only issue singled out by a Court of Appeals as the only question as to debatability, and that specific , deference goes directly to a trial court's factual finding that requires a credibility determination concerning an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer, does a court of appeals err by , finding the said deference not debatable when there is cold, hard and uncontroverted evidence that would make the attorney's credibilty, or any deference to it, not only unreasonable and debatable, . but completely impossible in this space and time continuum? ii

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-07-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 22, 2019)

Attorneys

Ryan Mason
Ryan Keith Mason — Petitioner