Opinion ID: 779465
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Failure to Assert Entrapment Defense

Text: 30 The supplemental petition claimed that defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel when counsel failed to investigate and present an entrapment defense. Defendant, however, does not specifically challenge the district court's finding that this claim was not filed timely. To establish ineffective assistance of counsel in a guilty plea context, the defendant must show that his counsel's performance was deficient and that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, he would not have pleaded guilty and would have insisted on going to trial. Hill v. Lockhart, 474 U.S. 52, 59, 106 S.Ct. 366, 88 L.Ed.2d 203 (1985). We agree with the district court that this claim was untimely because the facts supporting this claim could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence more than a year before the supplemental petition was filed on May 14, 2001. 31 The government also argues that the district court was not authorized to consider defendant's supplemental motion because it was a second or successive motion filed under § 2255 without authorization from this court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3). Although some courts have dismissed second or successive § 2255 motions if they are filed in district court without the necessary authorization, in this circuit such motions are to be transferred to this court for the necessary certification. In re Sims, 111 F.3d 45, 47 (6th Cir.1997). There is no indication in the record that this issue was raised in or considered by the district court. Having found that the claim asserted in the supplemental petition was not filed timely, we need not decide whether the motion was in fact a second or successive § 2255 motion. 6 32 AFFIRMED.