The following excerpt is from Lucas v. U.S., 963 F.2d 8 (2nd Cir. 1992):
The question remains as to whether this violation rises to a level that would justify a collateral attack on the judgment of conviction. A 2255 movant can successfully challenge a guilty plea conviction based on a rule 11 violation only by establishing that the violation constituted a "constitutional or jurisdictional" error, United States v. Timmreck, 441 U.S. 780, 783, 99 S.Ct. 2085, 2087, 60 L.Ed.2d 634 (1979) (citing Hill v. United States, 368 U.S. 424, 428, 82 S.Ct. 468, 471, 7 L.Ed.2d
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