Effective Assistance of Counsel

Whether counsel's failure to object to an improper upward adjusment for use of a minor, under guideline 3B1.4, was ineffective assistance of counsel that prejudiced Munoz. (Jose Del La Paz Munoz Flores, November 24, 2008).

Whether Norris should be granted an opportunity for an out-of-time appeal because the record establishes that he was deprived of his appellate rights by counsel’s ineffective performance. (Curtis Darryl Norris, September 19, 2003)

Whether the district court correctly concluded that, based on Texas precedent and trial evidence, the failure of Schaetzle’s appellate counsel to challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the retaliation conviction constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. (David Schaetzle, April 9, 2003)*

2 Brief Bank Index—FPD, Western District of Texas, 12/1/07
Whether Mitchell was denied effective assistance of counsel on appeal by counsel’s grossly inadequate appellate brief, which failed to raise meritorious issues likely to result in reversal on appeal. (James B. Mitchell, September 23, 1996 )*