Bryan Wayne Whillhite v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defendant did not show prejudice where he did “not come close to showing that ostensible weaknesses in the government’s proof of guilt would have made it rational for him to forgo his very favorable plea agreement”
• finding defendant’s theory of prejudice cannot be supported by “sheer speculation and conjecture”
• “In . . . our precedent, the two terms ‘knowing’ and ‘intelligent’ frequently have traveled together, even though we have not made a meaningful effort to attribute distinct meanings to them.”
• “[T]he maximum sentence for all § 924(c) offenses is life imprisonment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).