United States Fourth Circuit

Grant of a conditional writ of habeas corpus is reversed and remanded where Supreme Court precedent did not clearly establish that petitioner's attorney was constitutionally deficient in failing to inform petitioner that he was ineligible for parole before he entered a guilty plea.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/31/2008
• Decided 03/28/2008
• Published 03/28/2008

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and LIAM O'GRADY, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  William Edgar Salter, III, Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellants.  Margaret A. Chamberlain, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Henry D. McMaster, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellants.