Legal Opinion
Osagiede v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 9, 2008No. 07-1131PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Johnbull K. Osagiede, a Nigerian national, pleaded guilty to one count of heroin distribution and was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison. On April 25, 2006, he filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Northern District of Illinois. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255(a). He claimed, inter alia, that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel, see Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), because his lawyer sought no remedy for the Government’s failure to notify him of his right…
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