United States v. Geno Morris Cockrum

35 F.3d 572 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Geno Morris COCKRUM, Defendant-Appellant. No. 94-50035. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted Aug. 23, 1994. * Decided Aug. 30, 1994. Before: WALLACE, Chief Judge, HUG and RYMER, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Geno Morris Cockrum, a federal prisoner, appeals the district court's partial grant of his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2255 motion to correct his 97-month sentence. Cockrum pled guilty to drug and firearm charges. Cockrum contends that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his state counsel withdrew an appeal of a state firearm case without researching the consequences on his pending federal charges. We affirm. 3 We review de novo both the denial of a section 2255 motion and a determination that the defendant received his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. Frazier v. United States, 18 F.3d 778, 781 (9th…