No. 21-8036

Jason Slaughter v. Delaware

Lower Court: Delaware
Docketed: 2022-06-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights guilty-plea IAD-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default speedy-trial waiver
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Did petitioner’s attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default by advising petitioner that an appeal could not be filed because petitioner’s guilty plea waived ail pre-plea issues, even though the issue to be appealed implicated the very power of the State to prosecute? i

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-06-14
Waiver of right of respondent Delaware to respond filed.
2022-04-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 5, 2022)

Attorneys

Delaware
Maria Teresa KnollOffice of the Attorney General State of Delaware,, Respondent
Maria Teresa KnollOffice of the Attorney General State of Delaware,, Respondent
Jason Slaughter
Christopher Stephen KoysteLaw Office of Christopher. S. Koyste, LLC, Petitioner
Christopher Stephen KoysteLaw Office of Christopher. S. Koyste, LLC, Petitioner