James H. Higgason, Jr. v. Richard Clark, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison, and Attorney General of Indiana

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• holding that strong evidence of guilt is not a constitutional prerequisite for an Alford plea
• “Putting a factual basis for the plea on the record has become familiar as a result of statutes and rules, not as a result of constitutional compulsion.”
• \[C]hanneling all arguments into a single collateral attack is the principal role of the doctrine treating successive petitions as abuses of the writs.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).