Estrada v. State

TROUT, Justice.

This Court has granted Appellant Krispen Estrada’s request for review of an Idaho Court of Appeals decision upholding the district court’s denial of Estrada’s petition for post-conviction relief. The petition was grounded on Estrada’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim, which was based on his attorney’s failure to advise Estrada of his Fifth Amendment privilege to refuse to submit to a court-ordered psychosexual evaluation for sentencing purposes.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In the underlying criminal case, Estrada pleaded guilty to the rape of his estranged wife.…