Whether defense counsel's performance was deficient—falling below an objective standard of reasonableness—when counsel abandoned constitutional claims and defenses without Petitioner's knowledge or consent.

1. Whether Petitioner's guilty plea resulted from ineffective assistance of counsel; and

2. Whether trial counsel's failure to advise Petitioner on the strength and likelihood of success of his as-applied constitutional challenge to the indicted charges constituted ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) and its progeny.

Whether defense counsel's failure to advise a defendant of the strength and likelihood of success of an as-applied constitutional challenge to criminal charges, resulting in an unknowing and involuntary guilty plea, constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment and Strickland v. Washington