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- Title: Bridgeman v. United States
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 02, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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After promising in a plea agreement not to contest his "sentence" either by direct appeal or in a collateral proceeding, Vance Bridgeman pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and was sentenced to 103 months in prison. Bridgeman then filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. sec. 2255, alleging that his counsel was ineffective in inaccurately advising him on how much time he would serve, thus rendering his guilty plea involuntary, as well as in failing to call an eyewitness (whose testimony the government stipulated to) at the sentencing hearing. The district court denied Bridgemans motion, apparently interpreting the plea-agreement waiver as encompassing any sec. 2255 challenge but reasoning that Bridgemans ineffective assistance claim survived as an exception to the waiver. The court went on to conclude that counsels advice did not render Bridgemans plea involuntary, nor did the absence of the witness at sentencing prejudice him. We affirm, although on a different ground.
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