Floyd v. Melton

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• holding that a defendant must only be informed of direct, and not collateral, consequences of a guilty plea
• explaining that “[t]he alternative federal law holding of the [state] court in no way disturbs the independent state law ground for dismissal”
• “We have repeatedly held that lan- UNITED STATES v. AGUILA-MONTES DE OCA 10663 guage [in an indictment] that describes elements beyond what is required under [the] statute is surplusage and need not be proved at trial.”
• in the last two cited cases the Ninth 15 Circuit held that, at least in non-capital cases, application of the successive petition rule 16 of NRS § 34.810(2) is an independent and adequate state ground for procedural default

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