Bolivar Irizarry v. United States

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• holding that the facts used to determine whether there is a factual basis for the plea ʺmust be put into the record at the time of the pleaʺ and that ʺ[p]ost hoc explanations . . . are insufficientʺ
• holding that the district judge may rely upon any facts at his disposal, not just the admissions of the defendant, in evaluating the existence of a factual basis for the plea, but that any additional material relied upon must be made a part of the record of the plea proceedings
• reading the indictment and obtaining defendant’s admission not necessarily insufficient to establish factual basis for plea
• a court is \free to rely on any facts at its disposal\ in assessing the factual basis for a plea
• considerations of defendant’s age, representation by counsel, intelligence, education, and language barriers

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