Eric Wayne Dempsey v. State of Iowa

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• holding that “a claimant must proffer more than his or her own subjective, self-serving testimony” to establish prejudice from rejecting a plea offer
• rejecting applicant’s ineffective-assistance claim when applicant “presented little more than his own subjective, self-serving testimony in support of” the claimed prejudice
• placing little value on the defendant’s “subjective, self-serving testimony” when “there [was] no other evidence in the record” to support it
• noting, when proving the prejudice prong of an ineffective-assistance claim in the guilty plea-context, the applicant’s burden requires “objective, corroborating evidence,” and “subjective, self-serving testimony” is not enough
• finding prejudice exists where a claimant proves “a reasonable probability that, but for the counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different” (citations omitted)
• noting applicant must prove both that (1) his counsel failed 9 to perform an essential duty, and (2) he suffered prejudice as a result of his counsel’s failure

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