Eddie D. Smith v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant has the right to have his counsel “explain the sentencing exposure the defendant will face”
• recognizing the Sixth Circuit’s adoption of this evidentiary principle in a case involving a 60-month plea offer versus a 156-month sentence
• overturning the lower court’s conclusion that the defendant had failed to support his ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim and directing the court to consider the defendant’s “own self-serving testimony”
• “A criminal defendant has a right to expect at least that his attorney will . . . explain the sentencing exposure the defendant will face as a consequence of exercising each of the options available.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).