McBroom v. Warren

OPINION AND ORDER CONDITIONALLY GRANTING PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.

The question presented in the habeas corpus case is whether defense counsel’s advice concerning the remedy for a previous attorney’s ineffective assistance was itself so erroneous as to render the petitioner’s no contest plea unknowing and involuntary. The Court finds that the petitioner’s first attorney’s performance was constitutionally deficient when he failed to convey a plea offer to the petitioner, and the second attorney’s performance was constitutionally deficient when he…