United States Second Circuit

Defendant, who accused his attorney of coercing him into making a guilty plea, received ineffective assistance of counsel, where he made particularized allegations that counsel had threatened not to investigate his case and not to file pre-trial motions.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/11/2000
• Decided 02/06/2001
• Published 02/06/2001

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, Jr., Chief Judge:, Before JOHN M. WALKER, Jr., Chief Judge, CALABRESI and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Emily Berger, Assistant United States Attorney, (Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Daniel R. Alonso, on the brief), Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee., Robert L. Moore, Hempstead, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.