United States Supreme Court

In a case in which a defendant was convicted of driving with a revoked license after his attorney failed to convey plea bargain offers to him, the judgment of the Missouri Court of Appeals on the defendant's motion for postconviction relief is vacated and remanded, where the Missouri court correctly concluded that the attorney's failure to inform the defendant of the written plea offer before it expired fell below an objective reasonableness standard for purposes of an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim, but the Missouri court failed to require the defendant to show that the plea offer would have been adhered to by the prosecution and accepted by the trial court for purposes of showing prejudice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2012
• Published 03/21/2012

Judges

• Kennedy

Court

• United States Supreme Court

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