Lolley v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the denial of Walter Lolley's motion for postconviction relief. It held that his ineffective-assistance claims failed because he did not show objectively unreasonable performance or a reasonable probability that he would have rejected the plea and gone to trial, and his plea-withdrawal claim also failed because withdrawal was unlikely to have been granted. The court held that his plea-agreement claim was procedurally barred because he did not raise it on direct appeal, and his actual-innocence claim lacked merit.