Legal Opinion
Jones v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 16, 1998No. 97-31342PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
For the conditional habeas relief granted state prisoner Jean Jones, serving a mandatory life sentence for heroin distribution, the critical question for her ineffective assistance of counsel claim is whether, at her half-day trial, deficient performance caused the requisite prejudice. We REVERSE and RENDER.
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At the end of October 1987, a Louisiana grand jury indicted Jones for distribution of heroin on 4 September. The charge carried a mandatory life sentence. In early November, the state trial court appointed Jack Do-lan, with the Orleans Indigent…
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