Legal Opinion
Dwayne Weeks v. Robert Snyder, Warden Attorney General of the State of Delaware
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 17, 2000No. 98-9005PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware denying the petition of Dwayne Weeks for a writ of habeas corpus. Weeks, who pled guilty to the first degree murder of his wife, Gwendolyn Weeks, and her friend, Craig Williams, was sentenced to death. His subsequent appeals and post-conviction proceedings have been unsuccessful. He raises one narrow issue before us: whether his trial attorney afforded him constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel in connection with his guilty plea.
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- Miller v. FentonSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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