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• Title: Lewis v. United States
• Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Release Date : January 15, 1990
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 52 KB

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. Cecil Lewis, a state prisoner, challenges in this proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 the validity of the guilty plea that he entered back in 1975 to a federal criminal charge. His grounds are that the judge failed to warn him that conviction might be used to enhance the sentence that he would receive if he committed a future crime, and, a related point, that his counsel also failed to warn him of this possible consequence of a conviction. The consequence duly ensued. Long after his release in 1976 from federal prison, where he was serving the sentence imposed upon him for the offense to which he had pleaded guilty the year before, Lewis was convicted under Indiana's habitual offender statute, and it was the old federal sentence that made him a habitual offender under Indiana law and therefore, subject to the harsh punishment meted out to such offenders.

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