DUBLIN — A Fremont resident tried and failed to undo a murder conviction, after blaming the move on his “lying mother(expletive)” of a lawyer and attempting to convince a judge that he didn’t appreciate the gravity of what he explicitly agreed to in court.

Marquice McClinton, 39, pleaded no contest to first degree murder last April, just a few days into his murder trial, for an agreed-upon sentence of 29 years to life in prison. But almost immediately after taking the deal, McClinton started trying to get out of it, complaining to loved ones over the monitored Santa Rita Jail inmate phone that he had been misled. Much of the blame and vitriol was aimed at his lawyer, according to court records.

“That lying (expletive), that lying-(expletive) (expletive). That lying mother(expletive) lyin

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