Court Opinion

ID: 9438937
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 06:12:31.636866+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:26:01.825178
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Justice Ginsburg,
concurring in the judgment.
To prevail under the prejudice requirement of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668, 694 (1984), a petitioner for federal habeas corpus relief must demonstrate “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 (1985). As Moore’s counsel confirmed at oral argument, see Tr. of Oral Arg. 32, Moore never declared that, better informed, he would have resisted the plea bargain and opted for trial. For that reason, I concur in the Court's judgment.