Eleventh Circuit: Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. USA


Petitioner suffered no prejudice from ineffective assistance of counsel in handling a 10 year plea deal as opposed to the 40 years eventually imposed, since there was no guarantee that the deft would accept, given his desire for a firm offer, and the terms of "super cooperation" were vague enough that the parameters of deft's obligations were unclear, and the expectations of the govt could not be defined before entering into the material cooperation and determining the capacity of the deft to assist.  

Sufficient evidence in record that deft might not have accepted the offer of 20 years; consultations  with counsel were after the fact.  General post-trial and totality claims similarly insufficiently supported.

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