Whether the Ninth Circuit's prejudice standard for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim concerning competency to plead guilty conflicts with Strickland v. Washington and Hill v. Lockhart

QUESTION PRESENTED In evaluating the prejudice prong of habeas petitioner Robin Sherwood’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim concerning his competency to plead guilty, the Ninth Circuit required him to show a reasonable probability that he would have been found incompetent. Does this prejudice standard conflict with Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) and Hill v. Lockhart, 474 U.S. 52, 58-59 (1985), which ask the broader question of whether there is a reasonable probability that the result of the proceedings would have been different, or, in in the context of a guilty plea, whether Sherwood would have pled guilty? i LIST OF