LOMBARDI v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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• explaining that a lawyer moving to withdraw under Anders should ignore potential issues arising from a guilty plea unless the defendant wants the plea set aside
• explaining that a lawyer moving to withdraw under Anders should ignore potential issues arising from a guilty plea unless the defendant wants the plea set aside
• “Appellate lawyers are not obliged to raise issues that could boomerang on their clients; it is no failure of advocacy to leave well enough alone.”
• lawyer should not pursue arguments as to adequacy of Rule 11 plea colloquy unless client wishes to withdraw his guilty plea
• “The district judge did not explicitly remind Knox of his right to plead not guilty . . . though Knox, who already had pleaded not guilty and sought to alter that plea, obviously knew this[.]”
• where the defendant and his lawyer informed the judge that, with the exception of certain identified issues, they had no problems with the conclusions of the presentence re‐ port, that representation waived any other theories related to the sentence

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