Practice Area - Post Conviction
Post Conviction Appeals Lawyer
Denver, Colorado criminal defense attorney Richard A. Hostetler has extensive experience at every step of a criminal defense case: from pretrial motions, to trial, to appeals, to the post-conviction phases of a case that has lost in the Court of Appeals. Contact Mr. Hostetler if you an attorney experienced in post-conviction matters.
Should Mr. Hostetler take your criminal defense case involving drug charges, murder, sexual assault or white-collar crime in the post-conviction phase, he may ask for a motion of reconsideration of sentence based on rule 35(b) or rule 35 (c). Specifically, it may be possible through the application of these rules to take your cases back to trial court to raise additional grounds that you failed to raise in your appeal, such as:
- Newly discovered evidence or
- Violation of constitutional rights including
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
Denver Colorado Appellate Attorney
Based on the two-prong test established in Washington v. Strickland, Mr. Hostetler may find, and be able to argue convincingly, that (1) your original attorney’s performance fell below a reasonable standard of competent representation, and that (2) but for that ineffectiveness, there would have been a substantial probability of a different result.
When such arguments are relevant to your case, Mr. Hostetler knows how to give the best possible effort to convince a trial court that there would have been a probability of a different result had the case been tried with more effective counsel.
Contact the Law Firm of Richard A. Hostetler to discuss the potential for of post-conviction relief in your case.
Law Firm of Richard A. Hostetler
1800 Gaylord Street
Denver, CO 80206
Phone: (303) 333-9800
Fax: (303) 322-9546
