United States v. Francisco Granados

How courts have described this case

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• reversing and remanding sentence although defendant “failed to raise these arguments in the district court or before this court”
• applying plain error review to claim raised sua sponte by this court
• denying movant’s claim that counsel was ineffective because he incorrectly advised him of the sentence he would receive under the guidelines, but granting relief on the claim that counsel was ineffective for failing to object to an incorrect drug quantity
• when the plea agreement identified a drug quantity for sentencing, the government breached the agreement by not objecting to the higher quantity in the PSR
• “There can be little doubt that the [defendant’s] substantial rights are affected if his prison sentence is longer than it should have been.”
• “a defendant cannot set aside a guilty plea merely because he relied on his attorney’s opinion that the sentence would be a lenient one”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).