Legal Opinion
Wilson Daniel Winthrop-Redin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 23, 2014No. 13-10107PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
For his role as a boat crew member in an international drug-smuggling operation, Wilson Daniel Winthrop-Redin pled guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to possess five kilograms or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute and was sentenced to 168 months in prison. Two years after entering his plea, Winthrop-Redin sought postconviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, claiming that his plea was coerced by death threats from the boat’s captain and that his counsel provided ineffective assistance by instructing him not to report the threats to the district court. We…
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