FCI-Lompoc is in the midst of a crisis, which begs the question what other facilities may be experiencing the same. Without data indicating the number of tests being administered by facility–including privately operated ones–no one knows. On Day 51 of its outbreak, the BOP still has nearly twice the number of confirmed infections as the
Tag: habeas corpus
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Ineffective Assitance of Counsel Claim
On October 20, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s denial of a defendant’s claim that his attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to inform the defendant of a plea offer for 15 years in a sex trafficking case. The defendant went to trial, lost, and