Benjamin F. Miller, Jr. v. Colin C.J. Angliker, M.D., Director, Whiting Forensic Institute

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• noting that \[t]here is no question in this case that the State withheld\ infor- mation
• stating that “a defendant’s decision whether or not to plead guilty is often heavily influenced by his appraisal of ... information that may be available to cast doubt on the fact or degree of his culpability”
• noting that “the decision by the accused would have been different if the prosecution had not withheld the exculpatory evidence, the test is an objective one, depending largely on the likely persuasiveness of the withheld information”
• a defendant’s plea “is deemed ‘voluntary’ if it is not the product of actual or threatened physical harm, mental coercion overbearing the defendant’s will, or the defendant’s sheer inability to weigh his options rationally”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).