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Estrada v. State

IdahoNovember 24, 2006No. 30821/32755Cited 108 times
Plaintiff WinState of Idaho

Case Details

Judge(s)
Trout, Schroeder, Eismann, Burdick, Jones
Status
Published
Procedural Posture
appeal

Related Laws

No specific laws identified for this ruling.

Claim Types

Whistleblower

Outcome

The Idaho Supreme Court reversed the lower courts' decisions and held that Estrada's attorney provided ineffective assistance by failing to advise him of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination regarding the court-ordered psychosexual evaluation, and that the evaluation's use at sentencing violated his constitutional rights.

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