Stotts v. State

After being convicted of attempted second-degree murder and other person felonies, Paul Stotts filed a K.S.A. 60-1507 motion claiming his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective. The district court agreed that his counsel was ineffective for having failed to inform Stotts of the State's plea offer in 2008 of 161 months, "an offer that might reasonably have been accepted by Stotts." Instead, Stotts was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 292 months. But on appeal, we reversed, finding no prejudice had been shown. Stotts then filed another 60-1507 motion-this one alleged that counsel who…