PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
Athena Charlene Burdick petitions for habeas, urging that she did not understand the consequences of her guilty plea, rendering her plea involuntary. The district court rejected her claim, and we affirm.
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Burdick was indicted for capital murder, and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of murder. A jury assessed a 45-year sentence. Burdick then filed a state habeas petition arguing, inter alia, that her...
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