Ronald Mask v. Michael McGinnis Superintendent, Southport Correctional Facility Dennis C. Vacco, New York State Attorney General

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• holding that the prejudice requirement was satisfied when defendant stated his willingness to accept a reasonable plea bargain and a great disparity existed between the sentence exposure at trial and in the plea bar- gain
• “nothing in the standards established by the Supreme Court in either Strickland or Hill require an evaluation of whether the court would have accepted a different plea agreement”
• granting habeas relief when the state court improperly applied a heightened burden in a similar plea offer context
• upholding district court’s conclusion that overwhelming evidence against defendant might have prompted him to accept plea agreement despite protestations of innocence
• petitioner’s “protestations of innocence do not forestall a conclusion that he would have been amenable to a reasonable plea offer”
• large disparity in sentencing exposure coupled with petitioner’s statement that he would have accepted reasonable plea offer satisfies prejudice requirement

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