BONNEY v. WILSON

No. 13-8052.

754 F.3d 872 (2014)

Steven D. BONNEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Eddie WILSON, Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary; Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections; Peter K. Michael, Attorney General of the State of Wyoming, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 13, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William DeKrey , Student Intern ( Diane E. Courselle , Director, Jennifer Kirk , Student Intern, and Jesse Feinsod , Student Intern, on the brief), Defender Aid Program, University of Wyoming College of Law, Laramie, WY, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Meri V. Geringer , Wyoming Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Peter K. Michael , Attorney General, and David L. Delicath , Deputy Attorney General, with her on the briefs), Cheyenne, WY, for Respondents-Appellants.

Before GORSUCH, BALDOCK, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

The issue here, as framed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), is whether the Wyoming state court's denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim on collateral review of a guilty plea "resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established" Supreme Court precedent. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1). The federal district court thought so. For reasons...

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