Phillip Griffin v. United States

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• recognizing that a petitioner’s repeated declarations of innocence throughout trial do not, by themselves, prove that the petitioner would not have accepted a guilty plea
• recognizing that “[t]he second element of the Strickland test in the plea offer context is that there is a reasonable probability the petitioner would have pleaded guilty given competent advice”
• “[The defendant’s] repeated declarations of innocence do not prove, as the government claims, that he would not have accepted a guilty plea.”
• “A defense attorney’s failure to notify his client of a prosecutor’s plea offer constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment.”
• “[The defendant’s] repeated declarations of innocence do not prove, as the government claims, that he would not have accepted a guilty plea.”
• “[A] defendant must be entitled to maintain his innocence throughout trial under the Fifth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).