Status: Incarcerated
The story of Vonlee Nicole Titlow and
her uncle , Don Rogers is the subject of Oxygen's Snapped show,
season 13, episode 8. Oxygen describes the show as: Vonlee Nicole
Titlow is a transsexual woman who participated in the death of her
uncle in August 2000 to pay for a sex change operation..
Vonlee Nicole Titlow was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty to forty years.
Although the district court correctly determined that most of Titlow's claims lack merit or are procedurally defaulted, the court erred in concluding that Titlow failed to establish an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim arising out of her plea-bargaining experience. The Michigan Court of Appeals' conclusion that her second attorney was not deficient when he advised Titlow to withdraw the plea agreement negotiated by her first attorney was unreasonable because the record reflects that the second attorney totally failed to investigate her case prior to recommending that she withdraw the guilty plea. In contrast to the 7–to–15–year sentence that Titlow would have received under the plea agreement, she was convicted by a jury and sentenced to 20–to–40 years in prison. For the reasons set forth below, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court and conditionally GRANT the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, giving the State 90 days to reoffer Titlow the original plea agreement or, failing that, to release her.
You can write to Vonlee Nicole Titlow
at:
Vonlee Nicole Titlow 384878
G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility
3500 N. Elm Road
Jackson, MI 49201
Jackson, MI 49201
To view the obituary or grave, use the
link on the victim's name. To read the entire appeal (typically quite
interesting) use the link on the killer's name. You can watch Snapped
and more on Oxygen either on YouTube or your local cable provider.
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