Gerald Bryant v. Lawrence Edward Cherry Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney General of North Carolina

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

Gerald Bryant, who received consecutive sentences of life plus thirty to fifty years after pleading guilty to one count each of kidnapping and armed robbery, appeals from the order of the district court denying him a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Bryant contends that his guilty plea was not entered voluntarily and intelligently because the trial court failed to advise him of a seven-year mandatory minimum sentence for armed robbery. Because it is clear from the record that Bryant’s alleged ignorance of the mandatory minimum sentence could not reasonably…