Legal Opinion
Cecil L. Lewis v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 10, 1990No. 89-1762PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Cecil Lewis, a state prisoner, challenges in this proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 the validity of the guilty plea that he entered back in 1975 to a federal criminal charge. His grounds are that the judge failed to warn him that conviction might be used to enhance the sentence that he would receive if he committed a future crime, and, a related point, that his counsel also failed to warn him of this possible consequence of a conviction. The consequence duly ensued. Long after his release in 1976 from federal prison, where he was serving the sentence imposed upon him for…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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