United States v. Stephen Golden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial counsel’s performance was within the range of competent representation when he informed the defendant of the charges, the plea offer, the likely prison sentence if convicted and the likely prison sentence under the plea offer
• finding the district court’s estimate conservative in that it could have been off by an entire kilogram, and defendant would still have fallen into the same base offense level
• “Funk’s pretrial performance regarding the plea agreement was within the range of competence we demand from criminal attorneys”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).