Horace Edward Hollis v. United States

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• holding that where defendant is informed that sentencing decision rests solely in discretion of sentencing court and defendant states that he understands as much, plea will not be set aside as involuntary
• holding that counsel’s failure to timely appeal his client’s case demonstrated “such an extraordinary inattention to a client’s interests as to amount to ineffective assistance” (quoting Williams v. United States, 402 F.2d 548, 552 (8th Cir. 1968))
• rejecting a -7- defendant’s claim that his plea was involuntary, as “[t]he rule is clear that a defendant cannot set aside a guilty plea merely because he relied on his attorney’s opinion that the sentence would be a lenient one”
• procedure is to vacate sentence; time for appeal then commences to run from date of resentencing
• “a defendant cannot set aside a guilty plea merely because he relied on his attorney’s opinion that the sentence would be a lenient one”
• “a defendant cannot set aside a guilty plea merely because he relied on his attorney’s opinion that the sentence would be a lenient one”

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