Albert D. Burke v. Bruce J. Johnson, Gary Vaughn, and Jackson Township

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• holding that a release-dismissal agreement “executed under judicial supervision” counted in favor of the agreement’s enforceability (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that a party seeking to enforce an oral release-dismissal agreement had to prove voluntariness by a preponderance of the evidence
• noting that \the release/dismissal agreement [was] ... entered into as part of a plea agreement\
• noting that a preponderance standard is used to determine the voluntariness of a waiver of Miranda rights, the voluntariness of a confession, and the involun- tariness of a guilty plea attacked in a habeas proceeding
• describing the evidence that Rumery entered into the agreement voluntarily as “convincing.”
• “[W]here the parties present evidence advancing conflicting versions of the facts giving rise to a Section 1983 litigant’s alleged injuries, enforcement is appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).