Legal Opinion

State v. Rogers

Montana Supreme Court

Decided August 21, 2001No. 00-364PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Leaphart

¶1 Donald Rogers (Rogers) appeals from the order of the Fourth Judicial District Court denying post-conviction relief. The District Court found that Rogers’s claims of defense counsel’s error in failing to request a “failure to agree” jury instruction and failing to preserve Rogers’s right to appeal lacked merit and, therefore, any error was harmless. The court granted Rogers’s double jeopardy claim and reversed the ten-year sentence enhancement for use of a weapon. We reverse.

¶2 The following issues are raised on appeal:

I. Did the District Court err when it found that the failure to request…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Smith v. RobbinsSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  4. Roe v. Flores-OrtegaSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  5. United States v. Cecil Lovell JacksonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Whitlow v. StateMontana Supreme Court · 2008
  2. State v. KouglMontana Supreme Court · 2004
  3. State v. KouglMontana Supreme Court · 2004
  4. Wallace v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 2003
  5. State v. HendricksMontana Supreme Court · 2003

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