Jonah Iaea v. Franklin Sunn, Director of the Department of Social Services, State of Hawaii

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• holding that ineffective assistance occurs only when the attorney grossly mischaracterizes the likely outcome of sentencing, not merely when, after the fact, the actual outcome reveals his prediction to have been inaccurate
• holding that ineffective assistance occurs only when the attorney grossly mischaracterizes the likely outcome of sen- tencing, not merely when, after the fact, the actual outcome reveals his prediction to have been inaccurate
• explaining that “counsel have a duty to 13 supply criminal defendants with necessary and accurate information” regarding their guilty plea
• explaining that “counsel have a duty to 9 supply criminal defendants with necessary and accurate information” regarding their guilty plea
• noting that “[t]he record is replete with evidence that [defendant] was very reluctant to plead guilty and that defense counsel . . . had a great deal of trouble convincing him to do so”
• stating that to determine the voluntariness of the plea, the court looks to the totality of the circumstances, examining both the defendant’s “subjective state of mind” and the “constitutional acceptability of the external forces inducing the guilty plea.”

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