Womack v. Del Papa

MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:

Jaramie D. Womack, a Nevada prisoner, appeals the denial of his federal habeas petition. He asserts that he entered an Alford guilty plea to several crimes that was not knowing, voluntary and intelligent because he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. He alleges that even though his trial attorney advised him that a guilty plea was his “best chance” the trial judge would impose the minimum sentence for each count in his indictment, thereby making him eligible for parole in thirty to forty years,…