1. Frye v. Missouri and the Rights of Due Process
... a harsher sentence than he could have received. The defendant should not be held liable for making an uneducated guilty plea after his attorney, Michael Coles, failed to perform his duties as the appointed defense. The outcome resulted from a lack of legal assistance; therefore Mr. Frye would have served ... sought to challenge his conviction and claim ineffective assistance of counsel but was denied post-conviction relief. The reasoning was that even with Mr. Coles failure to communicate the plea offer, the circuit court ruled that Frye had failed to report that he "would have gone to...
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- Grade Level: High School