No. 19-5576

William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-08-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the additional sixty (60) years Taylor received at trial when attorney Allen Lidy failed to communicate the Boone County twenty (20) year plea offer constituted prejudice to Taylor under Lafler v. Cooper, 132 S. Ct. 1376, 1391 (2012)?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. WHETHER THE ADDITIONAL SIXTY (60) YEARS TAYLOR RECEIVED AT TRIAL WHEN ATTORNEY ALLEN LIDY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE THE BOONE COUNTY TWENTY (20) YEAR PLEA OFFER CONSTITUTED . , PREJUDICE TO TAYLOR UNDER LAFLER V. COOPER, 132s. Ct. 1376, 1391 (2012)? " IL. WHETHER IT WAS ABUSE OF DISCRETION WHEN ALL THE LOWER COURTS ACCEPTED AND USED HEARSAY TESTIMONY FROM ATTORNEY ALLEN G. LIDY FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LETTER, ALLEGEDLY WRITTEN FIVE (5) MONTHS PRIOR TO TRIAL, TO JUSTIFY LIDY’S FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE THE BOONE COUNTY’S TWENTY (20) YEARS PLEA OFFER TO TAYLOR? \ ii Ce .

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-09
Waiver of right of respondent Brown, Supt., Wabash Valley to respond filed.
2019-05-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 12, 2019)

Attorneys

Brown, Supt., Wabash Valley
Stephen Richard Creason — Respondent
Stephen Richard Creason — Respondent
William Taylor
William Taylor — Petitioner
William Taylor — Petitioner