Jobes v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of Jobes’s first motion for postconviction relief. It held that Jobes failed to establish ineffective assistance because the record did not show deficient performance or a reasonable probability that he would have rejected the plea and proceeded to trial, and that his knowing, intelligent, and voluntary guilty plea waived his independent claims concerning alleged pre-plea errors. The Court also held that claims not based on ineffective assistance were procedurally barred because Jobes did not raise them before conviction and did not establish cause for the default.