Legal Opinion
Boston v. Mooney
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 29, 2015No. CIVIL ACTION No. 14-229PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION... 355
II. BACKGROUND... 355
III. LEGAL STANDARD... 357
IV. DISCUSSION... 357
A. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Grounds... 358
1. Legal Standard... 358
2. Analysis... 358
a. Plea offer... 359
i. Reasonableness... 361
ii. Prejudice... 364
b. Failure to request non-standard informant jury instruction... 366
i. Arguable merit... 367
ii. Reasonableness... 368
iii. Prejudice... 369
c. Failure to object to the testimony of Detective List and witness Jesse Estes under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment of the U.S.…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Miller-El v. CockrellSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
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3Cited by4 opinions
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