John M. Purdy, Jr. v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “[counsel's conclusion as to how best to advise a client ... enjoys a wide range of reasonableness”
• stating that a defendant must show that she would have accepted the plea offer to show prejudice for counsel’s failure to properly consider or explain a plea offer
• holding “[defense counsel]’s decision to forgo specifically and explicitly telling [the petitioner] whether he should accept the government’s plea offer was also within the range of professional reasonableness.”
• providing that the ultimate decision of whether to plead guilty belongs to the defendant and that lawyers must be careful not to coerce a defendant into acceptance or rejection of a plea
• finding no “reasonable basis ... to upset the district court’s credibility determination of [defendant’s] post-conviction testimony” as to whether he would have pleaded guilty
• emphasizing that “[t]he [Strickland] performance inquiry is contextual”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).