Czere v. Butler

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

In this 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding, John Thomas Czere, III, a state prisoner in Louisiana, argues that the district court erred in refusing to set aside his state conviction, based on his guilty pleas, of two counts of second degree murder. Czere asserts that he entered these pleas in reliance on misinformation from his counsel regarding his parole eligibility date. We affirm the district court’s denial of Czere’s petition for the writ of habeas corpus because the district court’s finding that Czere failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was…