Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Ineffective Assistance of counsel defective indictment

US v. Weathers, No. 06-3022
Conviction and sentence for rape and attempted murder, denial of ineffective assistance of counsel claim are reversed where trial counsel provided constitutionally inadequate assistance by failing to challenge two counts of the indictment related to defendant's threats to injure the prosecutor as multiplicitous and in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause. Read more...

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