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· 2/10/2005

Jon Riley Hays v. United States

Citations

  • 397 F.3d 564
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 2162
  • 2005 WL 310871

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  • counsel’s advice to plead guilty was not objectively unreasonable where the defendant’s sentence, had he gone to trial, could have been substantially higher because he would not have obtained a three-level downward departure for acceptance of responsibility

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Judges: Easterbrook, Kanne, Evans

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