Scheele v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant could not have reasonably relied on his lawyer’s supposed advice regarding the length of the sentence he faced since the trial judge told him in no uncertain terms of the maximum sentence he faced
• holding that a defendant could not reasonably rely on his lawyer’s alleged advice that he faced a maximum sentence of only ten years where the trial court told the defendant in no uncertain terms that he faced a maximum of twenty-eight years
• “[a] plea conference is not a meaningless charade to be manipulated willy-nilly after the fact; it is a formal ceremony, under oath, memorializing a crossroads in a case.”
• “A plea conference is not a meaningless charade to be manipulated willy-nilly after the fact; it is a formal ceremony, under oath, memorializing a crossroads in the case. What is said and done at a plea conference carries consequences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).