Ronald Alexander v. John P. Whitley, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Ronald Alexander seeks federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. His petition alleges that his plea of guilty to multiple offender charges was not intelligently entered. Without conducting an evi-dentiary hearing, the district court adjudged from the “totality of the circumstances” that Alexander’s plea was voluntary. We remand to allow the district court to consider the intervening decision of the Supreme Court in McCleskey v. Zant, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 1454, 113 L.Ed.2d 517 (1991) and decide whether Alexander’s petition constitutes an abuse…