Examples of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: There are many ways in which your trial attorney may have been ineffective at defending you. First, defendant contends his counsel was ineffective for moving to strike the prior conviction using an incorrect legal standard.The majority in a split decision found counsel ineffective in the capital sentencing hearing. This chapter will use examples from Louisiana cases to help explain how to argue that your lawyer was "ineffective. Franklin argues that trial counsel were ineffective in the guilt phase in failing to request another competency hearing. Here we present examples of ineffective assistance of counsel in the sentencing context. Learn what errors at sentencing might qualify you for 2255 relief. Counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the miscalculation of defendant's base level under the United States Sentencing Guidelines. 16: Was there ineffective assistance of counsel in the present cases? I complete the habeas petition and attach these two affidavits and the investigator notes.