Legal Opinion
Hutchings v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 2010No. 08-3538PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Kevin Hutchings filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 after he discovered that the government would not move to reduce his sentence under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35, contrary to what his attorney had allegedly promised him. Hutchings argues that his attorney’s false guarantee of a Rule 35 reduction in his sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. The district court denied Hutchings’s petition, and we affirm.
I. Background
Hutchings was sentenced by a Texas court in 1992 to a ninety-nine-year…
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