The woman who admitted to kidnapping Kamiyah Mobley when she was a baby is asking a judge to throw out her judgment and sentence. Gloria Williams pleaded guilty in 2018 to the 1998 kidnapping of a baby from a Jacksonville hospital. She was sentenced to 18-years in prison, one year for every year Mobley was without her biological family.
Williams has asked the court to reconsider her cases several times. She has appealed her sentence, asked for a reduction to her sentence twice, and now she wants the judge to throw out the judgment and sentence and start over.
READ: Williams Motion for Postconviction Relief | 2018 Sentencing Order
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The motion argues she had ineffective counsel. Williams says attorney’s didn’t investigate her mental health. She argues her counsel didn’t ask for a hearing to decide if she was incompetent to proceed. She says her counsel didn’t prepare a defense, which gave her no option but to take a plea. And, she argues her counsel was ineffective for not trying to get a change of venue for a fair trial.
The motion says Williams should be allowed to withdraw her plea, be re-evaluated for competency and proceed as needed if competency is established.
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