Ronald Fields v. Margaret Bagley, Warden

OPINION

The district court granted petitioner-ap-pellee, Ronald Fields, a writ of habeas corpus because his due process rights and rights to counsel were violated due to his lawyer’s ineffective assistance. Fields’s lawyer neither notified Fields of a state-court appeal of his successful motion to suppress evidence nor represented Fields during that appeal. Margaret Bagley, the warden, appealed the district court’s grant of the writ of habeas corpus to this Court. Because the district court’s decision is well-reasoned and because Bagley did not raise issues beyond those considered by the…