United States v. Rashad

Opinion for the court filed by Chief Judge GINSBURG.

GINSBURG, Chief Judge:

Rasheed Rashad appeals his conviction on the ground that his lawyer’s advice to reject a plea offer constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. Invoking this court’s procedure for cases in which the defendant raises on appeal a colorable and previously unexplored claim of ineffective assistance, Rashad with the aid of new counsel seeks an evidentiary hearing in the district court. The Government argues that the limitation upon successive peti*909tions for habeas corpus contained in the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death…