Daniel Loconte v. Richard Dugger, Robert A. Butterworth

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• holding coercion by co-defendants and family members did not invalidate plea
• stating the district court’s obligation to conduct a de novo review of the record arises whenever there is a “timely and specific objection”
• “[F]or his own reasons — to save himself from a possible death sentence and to secure the release of his wife,” the defendant pled guilty.
• \It is only where the plea is coerced by conduct fairly attributable to the state that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is offended.\
• “It is only where the plea is coerced by conduct fairly attributable to the state that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is offended.”
• guilty plea not involuntary where co-defendant urged defendant to enter plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).