Legal Opinion
Milsap v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided January 13, 1984PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILHOIT, Judge.
The sole question raised on this appeal is whether the appellant should be granted a new evidentiary hearing on his motion to vacate his criminal conviction for which he had received a sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment upon a plea of guilty.
In his motion to vacate, filed pursuant to RCr 11.42, the appellant, an indigent person, alleged that his trial attorney, an assistant public defender in the Jefferson District Public Defender’s Office, had failed to render the appellant effective assistance of counsel in the proceedings leading up to guilty plea. Another assistant from…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Dukes v. Warden, Connecticut State PrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Hill v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978
- Commonwealth v. MassieSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
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