Legal Opinion
Guilmette v. Howes
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided September 10, 2008No. Case 05-CV-72646-DTPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
VICTORIA A. ROBERTS, District Judge.
Petitioner Bruce Michael Guilmette has filed a pro se application for the writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The habeas petition attacks Petitioner’s state conviction for first-degree home invasion. The Court concluded from a review of the pleadings and record that Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel by his attorneys’ failure to conduct a thorough investigation of the facts and failure to contest the prosecution’s proofs on an element of the offense. Accordingly, the…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Guilmette v. HowesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2010
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