Black Diamond S. S. Corp. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the government breached the plea agreement when it agreed to recommend concurrent sentences but recommended consecutive sentences
• stating that a plea agreement “must be attended by constitutional safeguards to ensure a defendant receives the performance he [or she] is due”
• noting that specific performance is the preferred remedy for the government's breach of the plea agreement
• finding that the issue of a breach of plea agreement was raised in the district court by defense counsel's request to consider the subject thereof
• “Allowing the government to breach a promise that induced a guilty plea violates due process.”
• noting that this is a concern for federal prosecutions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).