Todd Edward Matthews v. United States

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• noting that regardless of counsel’s sentencing advice, movant could not show prejudice where court advised him of potential maximum sentence at plea proceeding and movant indicated he understood before pleading guilty
• test for challenges to guilty pleas based on ineffective assistance of counsel
• “Where the substantive law of the forum state is uncertain or ambiguous, the job of the federal courts is carefully to predict how the highest court of the forum state would resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity.”

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