Gray v. Commissioner of Correction

Opinion

This habeas appeal concerns the validity of the petitioner’s claim that his conviction for manslaughter should be set aside because his nolo contendere plea resulted from the ineffective assistance of his trial counsel. The habeas court concluded that, although trial counsel had misled the petitioner, and although the habeas judge personally had doubts about the petitioner’s guilt, the petitioner had failed to establish that there was a reasonable probability that, if the petitioner had gone to trial, the result would have been different. See Hill v. Lockhart,, 474 U.S. 52, 57-58, 106…