El Pueblo De Puerto Rico v. Bello Colon, Christian M

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• recognizing that plea negotiations are a “critical point” in the course of a criminal proceeding where effective assistance of counsel is required
• recognizing that Hill “established” that Strickland applies to ineffectiveness claims in the plea bargaining context
• concluding that defendant had not established prejudice because of “strong reason to doubt the prosecution and the trial court would have permitted the plea bargain to become final”
• recognizing that “[n]inety- seven percent of federal convictions and ninety-four percent of state convictions are the result of guilty pleas”
• holding that “as a general rule, defense counsel has the duty to communicate formal offers from the prosecution” to the defendant
• holding that where plea offer has lapsed or been rejected due to ineffective assistance, defendant must show the end result would have been more favorable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).