Jerry W. Craker v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections

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• holding that a defendant who, on the advice of his attorney, accepted a 20-year sentence as part of a guilty plea for passing $20 bad check, but who did not allege that he would otherwise have proceeded to trial, did not establish a per se ineffective assistance claim
• reversing grant of habeas corpus relief where petitioner failed to allege in his petition that had counsel effectively assisted him, he would have rejected a plea offer and insisted on going to trial

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