Criminal – Habeas Corpus – Ineffective Assistance 
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Published: June 28, 2010
Tags: Criminal, Judge Thomas D. Horne, Loudoun County Circuit Court, Virginia Circuit Courts
Although petitioner’s Virginia lawyer provided constitutionally deficient counsel when he misrepresented New Jersey law by telling petitioner that “New Jersey can’t use [her] Virginia case against” her in New Jersey, and petitioner has shown the necessary prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, a Loudoun County Circuit Court nevertheless denies her habeas petition as moot.
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