A federal prisoner who spurned a plea offer and was sentenced after trial to multiple life terms has made a sufficient showing to require a hearing on his ineffective assistance of counsel claim, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled yesterday.
The disparity between the plea offer that likely would have required him to spend 29 years in prison and the sentence after trial was sufficiently stark to meet the modest threshold for determining whether Umeme Raysor was prejudiced by his trial counsel’s alleged failure to adequately advise him about the plea offer, the circuit said.
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