Legal Opinion
Parrish Cole v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 10, 1998No. 97-1028PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Parrish Cole brings this motion to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, raising an issue of first impression in this circuit: whether his trial counsel was ineffective per se because the counsel had not been admitted to practice in the federal district in which Cole was tried. We conclude that a per se rule is not appropriate here, and affirm.
In 1993, Cole was charged with violating federal drug laws. The district court initially appointed counsel for Cole, but Cole retained his own attorney a few weeks later, and the court-appointed attorney…
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