Donald Frank McMath v. the State of Texas

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• holding that petitioner failed to “provide the type of information which would allow an intelligent assessment of the likelihood that [he] would not have plead[ed] guilty”
• a petitioner must provide the court “with the type of specific facts which would allow ... an intelligent assessment of the likelihood that [a petitioner] would not have ple[ ]d guilty.”
• A petitioner must provide the court “with the type of specific facts which would allow ... an intelligent assessment of the likelihood that [a petitioner] would not have ple[ ]d guilty.”
• a petitioner must provide the court “with the type of specific facts which would allow . . . an intelligent assessment of the likelihood that [a petitioner] would not have ple[ ]d guilty.”
• “[D]ispositions by guilty plea are accorded a great measure of finality. Thus, once a person has entered a guilty plea any ‘subsequent presentation of conclusory allegations unsupported by specifics is subject to summary dismissal[.]’”
• “[O]nce a person has entered a guilty plea any subsequent presentation of conclusory allegations unsupported by specifics is subject to summary dismissal, as are contentions that in the face of the record are wholly incredible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).