No. 20-1187

Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-02-25
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-rights contemporaneous-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-test sentencing-guidelines
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2021-03-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

What additional objective and contemporaneous evidence is required to satisfy the prejudice test this Court articulated in Hill v. Lockhart and other cases, where a defendant such as Carmichael has proved (1) he was not told about a pre-trial plea offer of 10-to-15 years; (2) he was not advised about his guidelines sentencing exposure; (3) he testified he would have accepted the pre-trial plea offer if his lawyers had properly advised him; (4) he repeatedly asked his lawyers to seek a pre-trial plea settlement; (5) he knew his attorneys were unprepared for trial and he had no viable defense; and (6) he received a sentence decades longer than the Government's pre-trial plea offer?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

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Docket Entries

2021-03-29
Petition DENIED. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2021-03-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/26/2021.
2021-03-02
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-01-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 29, 2021)

Attorneys

Leon Carmichael
Leon Carmichael — Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent