No. 20-5196

David McConnell v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2020-07-31
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: cooperation-with-state criminal-investigation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder murder-prosecution prosecutorial-conflict sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendant's cooperation with the State in a murder prosecution?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendants cooperation with the State in a murder prosecution? oe ; OO 2. What actual conflicting interests-existi ifthe défendants counsel: is , being criminally investigated or prosecuted by the same prosecutors office that is prosecuting the defendant? ;

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-07-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 31, 2020)

Attorneys

David McConnell
David McConnell — Petitioner
David McConnell — Petitioner