State v. Taccetta

In 1993, defendant Martin Taecetta was convicted by a jury of crimes contained in a multi-count indictment and was sentenced to an aggregate term of life imprisonment plus ten years with a thirty-year parole disqualifier. In 2005, defendant was granted post-conviction relief (PCR) based on a judicial finding of ineffective assistance of counsel. The PCR judge found that defendant rejected a plea offer—an offer that he otherwise would have accepted—because his attorney had misinformed him about the sentencing consequences that would follow if defendant were found guilty of certain crimes in…