Effective-assistance-of-counsel

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED : . ; I. Whether the duty of defense counsel to provide effective assistance during plea negotiations extends to delivering counteroffers to the prosecution. 2. Whether the rules created in Lafler v. Cooper concerning demonstration of prejudice apply to counteroffers during plea deal negotiations. 3. Whether the second and third prongs of the Lafer test place an undue burden on Petitioners to forecast the responses of prosecutors and judges to counteroffers. : ; 4, Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Lafler v. Cooper/ Missoutt v. Frye standard to Petitioner when determining he failed to meet the Martinez v. Ryan, 566 US. I (2012) exception to procedural default. 3. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled prematurely and erroneously denied Petitioner's habeas corpus petition without reviewing the full record of timely filed pleadings.