Junior Frederick v. Warden, Lewisburg Correctional Facility

WINTER, Circuit Judge.

Junior Frederick appeals from Judge McAvoy’s demal of his habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The petition challenged his plea-based conviction on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel with regard to a motion to withdraw the guilty plea, the sentencing, and the appeal. We reach the merits of appellant’s petition notwithstanding appellant’s general waiver of the right to collaterally attack his conviction. We do so because appellant’s petition goes to the validity of the plea agreement itself and thus has not been waived. However, appellant’s attack…