Theriot v. Whitley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the petitioner “can succeed in 26 establishing that he was prejudiced by his attorney’s failure to investigate [petitioner’s competence] only if he can demonstrate by a reasonable probability that he was 27 incompetent to plead guilty.”
• finding no ineffective assistance when the record neither supports nor refutes that counsel was aware of the defendant’s suicide attempt in jail
• petitioner’s signature on guilty plea documents is prima facie evidence of the validity of the plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).