Hockett v. Breunig
Indiana Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
BUCHANAN, Judge.
CASE SUMMARY
Plaintiff-appellant Ralph S. Hockett, II (Hockett) seeks reversal of the trial court's grant of summary judgment on his legal malpractice claim in favor of defendants-appellees Preston T. Breunig (Breunig) and Richard Gilroy (Gilroy).
We affirm.
FACTS
In 1980, Hockett was charged with murder,1 burglary,2 robbery,3 and arson.4 The State requested the death penalty. On August 25, 1981, before a scheduled suppression hearing, Hockett's court-appointed public defenders, Breunig and Gilroy, advised him to plead guilty in exchange for the prosecutor's promise to forego…
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