Commonwealth Ex Rel. Light v. Cavell

How courts have described this case

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• counsel’s erroneous advice that defendant could be convicted for murder of the first degree if his conviction for murder of the second degree was reversed “precludes a finding that the decision to forego ... an appeal was an intelligent waiver of that right”
• counsel's erroneous advice that defendant could be convicted for murder of the first degree if his conviction for murder of the second degree was reversed \precludes a finding that the decision to forego . . . an appeal was an intelligent waiver of that right\
• facts did not support defendant’s waiver of right to appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).