35 Cited authorities

  1. Jones v. Barnes

    463 U.S. 745 (1983)   Cited 11,144 times   21 Legal Analyses
    Holding that it was not ineffective assistance for appellate counsel to decline to make every nonfrivolous argument requested by the defendant
  2. Boykin v. Alabama

    395 U.S. 238 (1969)   Cited 13,220 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a silent record is insufficient for a waiver of certain specified rights not at issue here
  3. Moran v. Burbine

    475 U.S. 412 (1986)   Cited 4,084 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Sixth Amendment does not apply to statements a defendant makes to police before he is indicted
  4. Brady v. United States

    397 U.S. 742 (1970)   Cited 7,302 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "a voluntary plea of guilty intelligently made in the light of the then applicable law does not become vulnerable because later judicial decisions indicate that the plea rested on a faulty premise"
  5. People v. Fiumefreddo

    82 N.Y.2d 536 (N.Y. 1993)   Cited 710 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In People v Fiumefreddo (82 NY2d 536), defendant moved to withdraw her guilty plea, arguing that it had been coerced because it was connected to the prosecutor's acceptance of a plea bargain favorable to her codefendant father, who was elderly and ill. Although stating that connected pleas presented a matter "requir[ing] special care," we rejected the defendant's argument that her plea had been involuntary, noting that the plea had been subject to several months of negotiations; that the court engaged in a "lengthy and detailed colloquy"; and that she never denied her guilt (id. at 545-546).
  6. People v. Porto

    16 N.Y.3d 93 (N.Y. 2010)   Cited 310 times

    Nos. 219, 220. Argued November 16, 2010. Decided December 21, 2010. APPEAL, in the first above-entitled action, by permission of an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, entered October 6, 2009. The Appellate Division affirmed a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Robert M. Stolz, J.), which had convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree. APPEAL, in the second

  7. People v. Linares

    2 N.Y.3d 507 (N.Y. 2004)   Cited 296 times
    Affirming conviction and rejecting defendant's argument that he was entitled to a new trial because he was denied substitute counsel after he threatened his attorney, who nonetheless proceeded to represent him
  8. People v. Alexander

    97 N.Y.2d 482 (N.Y. 2002)   Cited 266 times
    In Alexander, the defendant, while awaiting sentence, moved to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming he was not competent when he entered it.
  9. Ward v. Jenkins

    613 F.3d 692 (7th Cir. 2010)   Cited 125 times
    Finding that a pro se habeas petitioner had fairly presented his ineffective assistance of counsel claim to the state courts where he cited the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, a leading Supreme Court case, a number of state cases involving constitutional analysis, and facts that placed his claim within the mainstream of constitutional analysis
  10. People v. Ferguson

    67 N.Y.2d 383 (N.Y. 1986)   Cited 189 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that defense counsel validly waived a double jeopardy claim by assenting to a mistrial when defendant was not consulted or present