Joseph A. Williams v. Harold J. Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility

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• trial court’s inadvertent misrepresentation to defendant as to maximum possible sentence did not render guilty plea involuntary where defendant would not have changed plea had he known the true maximum
• \[T]he test in this circuit for determining the constitutional validity of a state court guilty plea where the defendant has been given sentencing misinformation is whether the defendant was aware of actual sentencing possibilities ... .\
• \[T]he test in this circuit for determining the constitutional validity of a state court guilty plea where the defendant has been given sentencing misinformation is whether the defendant was aware of actual sentencing possibilities . . . .\

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