Richard Magana v. Gerald Hofbauer

OPINION

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-Appellant Richard Magana appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief. Magana was convicted by a jury in Michigan state court of two drug offenses and sentenced to two mandatorily consecutive terms of ten to twenty years’ imprisonment. Maga-na’s sole claim in his habeas petition is that he received ineffective assistance of counsel during the plea negotiation process. Magana claims that his trial attorney advised him to turn down the government’s plea offer based upon the attorney’s erroneous belief that the maximum to…