A plea of guilty entered after extensive legal advice, with signed written instructions confirming the plea was free and voluntary and acknowledging no guarantee of any particular sentence, will not be set aside merely because the applicant anticipated a lesser sentence than was imposed. The contemporaneous documentary record is critical in assessing the integrity of a guilty plea.
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