Legal Opinion
Finch v. Vaughn
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 31, 1995No. 94-8597PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
In this habeas corpus ease, we determine whether a guilty plea was knowing, intelligent, and voluntary and resulted from ineffective assistance of counsel under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, when the petitioner pled guilty to state narcotics charges with the understanding that his state sentence would be concurrent with his federal sentence. The district court denied habe-as relief. We REVERSE and REMAND.
I. BACKGROUND
In September, 1988, petitioner, Charlie Finch, who was on parole for a federal sentence with approximately ten years remaining, was arrested on…
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