Warren v. Baenen, No. 12-1148 (7th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseWarren shot and killed a man in 2002, during a marijuana sale. Although Warren was originally charged in state court with first-degree intentional homicide, he eventually pled no contest to first-degree reckless homicide, a reduced charge. Soon after entering the plea, Warren began attempting to withdraw it. He unsuccessfully fought his 40-year sentence through the Wisconsin court system and was denied habeas corpus in federal district court. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting his argument that the state trial court’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his plea deprived him of due process and that he received unconstitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel throughout his state court proceedings.
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