Jeremy Alfonzie Jones v. USA

[DO NOT PUBLISH]
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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No. 12-10562
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D.C. Docket Nos. 1:11-cv-00102-JRH-WLB; 1:09-cr-00171-JRH-WLB-1
JEREMY ALFONZIE JONES,
Petitioner - Appellant,
versus
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Respondent - Appellee.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Georgia
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(November 13, 2014)
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Before TJOFLAT and WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and SCOLA,∗ District
Judge.
PER CURIAM:
On October 14, 2014, the United States Department of Justice issued a
memorandum to all federal prosecutors regarding the enforcement of appeal
waivers in which defendants waive claims of ineffective assistance of counsel on
direct appeal and/or collateral attack. See Memorandum from James M. Cole,
Deputy Attorney General, to All Federal Prosecutors (Oct. 14, 2014), available at
http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/DOJ_Ineffective_Assistance_Counsel.pdf (“For
cases in which a defendant’s ineffective assistance claim would be barred by a
previously executed waiver, prosecutors should decline to enforce the waiver when
defense counsel rendered ineffective assistance resulting in prejudice or when the
defendant’s ineffective assistance claim raises a serious debatable issue that a court
should resolve.”). In light of this new policy, and in response to our directive
asking the United States Attorney to address its impact on the instant case, the
Government has withdrawn its reliance on Jeremey Jones’s collateral-attack
waiver.
∗ Honorable Robert N. Scola, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District
of Florida, sitting by designation.
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As a result, the judgment of the District Court is VACATED and the case is
REMANDED to the District Court with the instruction to afford Jones an
evidentiary hearing on his ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim.
VACATED and REMANDED, with instruction.
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