BOWLES v. NANCE

Record No. 870703.

374 S.E.2d 19 (1988)

Kevin Mark BOWLES v. T.N. NANCE, Judge, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Geary, Richmond, for appellant.

Linwood T. Wells, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellees.

Present CARRICO, C.J., POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL and THOMAS, JJ., and GORDON, Retired Justice.


POFF, Justice.

In this appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, we consider whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney advised him to plead guilty.

On November 23, 1983, Kevin Mark Bowles pled guilty to a charge of grand larceny, and the trial judge convicted him of the felony. In a sentencing hearing conducted January 10, 1984, the court "suspend[ed] the imposition of sentence in...

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