PORTILLO v. U.S.

No. 11-CF-0431.

62 A.3d 1243 (2013)

Jose Gilberto PORTILLO, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 21, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffery O'Toole for appellant. Molly Cannon was on the brief for appellant.

Peter S. Smith , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, Roy W. McLeese III , Assistant United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Michael T. Truscott and Reagan Taylor , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GLICKMAN, BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, and OBERLY, Associate Judges.


BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge:

Appellant, Jose Portillo, was convicted after a jury trial of two counts of first-degree felony murder while armed.1 Appellant contends, inter alia, that the trial court failed to conduct an adequate inquiry into his pretrial ineffective assistance of counsel claim as required by the Monroe-Farrell line of cases. We agree and remand the case so...

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