Legal Opinion
Jonah Iaea v. Franklin Sunn, Director of the Department of Social Services, State of Hawaii
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 22, 1986No. 84-2196PublishedCited by 241 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Petition for rehearing is granted. The opinion filed October 28,1985 is withdrawn.
Jonah Iaea filed a federal habeas corpus petition to challenge the validity of his guilty plea in Hawaii state court. He claims that he entered the plea without effective assistance of counsel and that he did not enter it voluntarily or intelligently. The district court denied the petition. Because we find that the performance of Iaea’s counsel was deficient we remand for a determination as to whether Iaea was prejudiced. We also remand for further findings on claimed coercion that might…
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