Is it ineffective assistance of counsel for a lawyer to advise a client to accept an agreement entailing a more harsh prison sentence but no forfeiture?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Quinones v. United States, 14-4575-pr (2nd Cir. 2016):
that it "would surely constitute ineffective assistance of counsel" for "a lawyer . . . [to] advise a client to accept an agreement entailing a more harsh prison sentence but no forfeitureeven where contrary to the client's interestsin an effort to preserve the lawyer's fee"); Winkler v. Keane, 7 F.3d 304, 307-08 (2d Cir. 1993).3
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