McPhearson v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• deeming the defendant “clearly prejudiced by his counsel’s failure to raise” a plausible argument that would have reduced his Guidelines range from 140–175 months to either 120–150 months or 100–125 months
• deeming the defendant “clearly prejudiced by his counsel’s failure to raise” a plausible argument that would have reduced his Guidelines range from 140–175 months to either 120–150 months or 100–125 months
• “An error by counsel at sentencing that amounts to any extra jail time is prejudicial under the Sixth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).