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182185P.pdf 04/08/2020 Rocky Mayfield v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-2185
U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Bismarck
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Habeas. Mayfield alleged that his attorney's performance
was constitutionally deficient because counsel advised him to decline a
plea offer based on a sentencing enhancement any reasonable counsel should
have known was inapplicable; the record at this juncture does not
conclusively refute this claim, and the district court erred in denying
Mayfield's Section 2255 motion without a hearing; remanded for further
proceedings.