State v. Gonzalez-Faguaga

How courts have described this case

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

• “if the defendant remains silent upon the breach, he or she can neither move to withdraw the plea nor seek specific performance of the agreement”
• in determining whether trial counsel’s performance was deficient, appellate court affords trial counsel due deference to formulate trial strategy and tactics
• “Instead, the focus is on whether counsel’s deficient performance sacrificed Gonzalez-Faguaga’s ability to protect the bargain he had struck with the State, thereby rendering the result of the proceedings ‘fundamentally unfair.’ ”
• plea of no contest is equivalent to plea of guilty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).