St. Helena Clear Lake Hospital v. Xavier Becerra

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• where lack of voluntariness not specifically claimed, the judge may infer voluntariness from the favorable sentencing consequences of the defendant’s plea
• \A plea is intelligently made when the defendant has knowledge of the elements of the charges against him ... [and] of the procedural protections that he would forego by pleading guilty\
• where defendant’s collateral attack on guilty plea is based on omissions in colloquy relating to defendant’s intra-trial rights, defendant must show that alleged omission made a difference in decision to plead guilty
• transcript of colloquy existed and showed no adequate inquiry by judge
• transcript of plea colloquy showed no adequate inquiry by judge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).