ANOTHER ROBINSON & BRANDT VICTORY Certificate of Appealability Granted So that the Ninth Circuit Can Address whether the Government Engaged in Brady Violation, Requiring Defendant’s Conviction to Be Vacated Arthur Hollis has been fighting his conviction and sentence for the distribution of cocaine base for nearly ten years. After being convicted at trial and sentenced to a statutory minimum 240 months imprisonment, Mr. Hollis contacted Robinson & Brandt for representation. Unfortunately, Mr. Hollis’ initial appeal to the Ninth was not successful. See United States v. Hollis, No. 05-30611 (9th Cir. 2006). But Mr. Hollis did not give up and continued to fight for relief. When Mr. Hollis came to Robinson & Brandt for a second time six years had passed and his § 2255 motion had been pending in the district court for several years. During that time, Mr. Hollis had been appointed several different attorneys to represent him. Each of those attorneys failed to raise the arguments that Mr. Hollis wanted to be argued and that needed to be argued—that “the Government engaged in prosecutorial misconduct when it withheld important exculpatory information from the defense prior to trial.” After working closely with Mr. Hollis, Robinson & Brandt filed summary brief making this argument and several others. The district court did not yet grant relief, but granted certificate of appealability so that the Ninth Circuit could determine whether the government’s wrongful conduct required that Mr. Hollis’ conviction be vacated. Following that decision, we are currently representing Mr. Hollis on appeal in the Ninth Circuit. Much more work is needed. But for the first time in several years, Mr. Hollis has a significant chance of receiving relief.
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:40:22 +0000
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