Shun Warren v. Michael Baenen

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting petitioner’s argument that court-appointed sentencing counsel was ineffective because “[cjounsel is not ineffective for failing to raise meritless claims”
• asking whether there is a reasonable probability that, if a hearing had been held, the defendant would have been found incompetent to stand trial
• rejecting petitioner’s argument that court‐appointed sentencing coun‐ sel was ineffective because “[c]ounsel is not ineffective for failing to raise meritless claims”
• explaining that we construe pro se petitions liberally
• “Following the court’s implicit instruction, then, to look to the Court of Appeals’s decision on direct appeal for a decision on the merits, we find that this court decided a related, but distinct, issue.”
• “To survive a due process challenge, a plea must be knowing, voluntary, and intelligently entered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).