ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:
I.
This case presents the perennially troublesome question of whether and when a felon convicted on a plea of guilty may secure post-conviction relief on grounds his lawyer's advice was so problematical that his plea was, in law, involuntary. Today we face the more limited question whether the prisoner's complaint in this regard is legally sufficient, such that it may not be dismissed on its face.
We hold that the...
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