Legal Opinion
Steele v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 13, 2008No. 07-1112PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Gayle Jean Steele appeals from the denial by the district court 1 of her 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside or correct her sentence. She was earlier sentenced to 262 months imprisonment for her conviction of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. We granted a certificate of appealability on one issue in Steele’s § 2255 motion — her claim that counsel’s failure to honor her request to file a petition for certiorari constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm.
On appeal Steele contends that she had a…
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