Jones v. Link

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring criminal defendant to allege he obtained postconviction sentencing relief before suing his attorney for malpractice when the criminal defendant \complains that his attorney's negligence resulted in a sentencing error\
• “where ... an attorney’s failure to object to a sentencing enhancement resulted in a higher sentence being imposed on plaintiff, the improper sentence was not the direct result of plaintiff’s criminal behavior, but rather, it was the proximate result of his attorney’s negligence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).