Fields v. Gibson

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• explaining that a plea may be involuntary if counsel “materially 4 misinforms the defendant of the consequences of the plea” (quoting United States v. Rhodes, 913 F.2d 839, 843 (10th Cir. 1990))
• “The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that a defendant knowingly . . . enter a plea of guilty.”
• “[A] plea may be involuntary if counsel informs the defendant that he has no choice, he must plead guilty.” (citation omitted)
• \ '[A]ppellate review of the habeas denial is limited to the specified issues' in the [COA].\ (first alteration in original) (quoting Ramsey v. Bowersox , 149 F.3d 749 , 759 (8th Cir. 1998)
• “The HUD officials’ conduct cannot be squared with the First Amendment, no matter what rule is applied in evaluating the filing of the state-court lawsuit…[t]he scope and manner of the investigation violated plaintiffs’ First Amendment Rights.”

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