David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al.
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages?
2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process?
3. Do trial counsels' ineffective assistance and the trial Court's failure to conduct an on-the-record colloquy render petitioner's waiver of appeal rights unknowing, unintelligent, and involuntary?
4. Does trial counsel's ineffective assistance render the petitioner's guilty plea agreement unknowing, unintelligent, and involuntary?
5. Is a sentence of life without parole (and an unknowing, unintelligent, and involutary waiver of all appeal rights) and all the relevant consequences of a sentence of life without parole a lesser punishment than a death penalty and all the relevant consequences?
Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages?