United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of state prisoner's federal petition for habeas corpus relief from sentence and conviction for no contest plea to racketeering, is reversed where petitioner fairly presented to the state courts his claims that trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by unduly pressuring him into accepting a no contest plea and that his decision to enter the plea and waive his right to a jury trial was not knowingly and voluntarily made.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/05/24

Judges

• WATFORD

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel