Jason Calvert v. State of Tennessee

Summary

The Court held that counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to advise Calvert that his rape convictions would carry mandatory lifetime community supervision, an additional punitive component of his sentence. Calvert established both deficient performance and a reasonable probability that, had he known of the consequence, he would have rejected the plea and gone to trial. The Court rejected his separate claims that counsel inadequately prepared him for trial or pressured him to plead guilty, reversed, and remanded for withdrawal of the pleas and further proceedings.