Legal Opinion
GAEDTKE v. McNeil
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided March 25, 2009No. 8:05-cv-01074Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN, District Judge.
Petitioner Wayne Gaedtke was arrested and charged with a sex crime involving a minor, a first degree felony carrying a maximum sentence of thirty years. He then spent thirty-four days in the St. Johns County Jail without seeing a lawyer. When he was finally brought to court for his en masse arraignment, the judge told the assembled group of defendants that any plea offer made at arraignment is “always” the best offer they will ever get and it is only good for that day. At the same proceeding, Gaedtke was appointed a lawyer who knew nothing about his…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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