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The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on October 31 2011 in the case of Lafler v. Cooper<\/u> and Missouri v. Frye<\/u>, that raises the issue of whether an a criminal defense attorney in Massachusetts<\/a>, or any other state, can provide ineffective assistance of counsel during a plea negotiation when a defendant later receives a fair trial. <\/p>\n

In the case of Cooper,<\/u> he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney told him that he could not be convicted of assault with the intent to murder, because the shots he fired were below the victim’s waist. Based on this advice, Cooper claims that he went to trial and received a sentence eight years greater than the sentence he would have received had he accepted the original plea offer and was given proper advice as to the elements of the offense. To read the brief of Defendant Cooper you can click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the Frye<\/u> case, the defendant claimed he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney did not communicate a plea offer to him which expired; the defendant received a harsher sentence when he entered an open plea in court. Under the proposed plea offer, that was not communicated, the prosecutor offered to allow the defendant to plea to a misdemeanor with a ninety day jail sentence recommendation. The defendant ultimately received three years as part of an open plea but claimed prejudice in being deprived the opportunity to plea to the misdemeanor offense as a result of counsel ineffective assistance in not communicating the offer. You can read the filings in the Frye<\/u> case by clicking here. <\/a><\/p>\n

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