James Godwin v. United States

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• suggesting hypothetical bases that could provide a factual basis for the plea beyond the indictment and plea allo-cution
• reasoning that “reading of the indictment to the defendant coupled with his admission of the acts described in it [is] a sufficient factual basis for a guilty plea, as long as the charge is uncomplicated, the indictment detailed and specific, and the admission unequivocal”
• “Although Rule 11 specifies only that the court must be ‘satisfied’ that the plea has a basis in fact, that factual basis must be developed on the record at the plea proceeding[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Kenneth Hart Adams, Howard Willis
  Second Circuit· 2006-05-10· cited 116×
• United States v. Latroy D. Ray, Johnny Lee May, and Boyd McChristion
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-10-02· cited 96×
• United States v. Decaress Smith
  Second Circuit· 1998-11-09· cited 89×
• United States v. Garcia
  Second Circuit· 2009-12-01· cited 85×
• United States v. Frederick Schultz
  Second Circuit· 2003-06-25· cited 84×
• United States v. Rosa
  Second Circuit· 1994-02-23· cited 72×
• United States v. James Van Buren
  Sixth Circuit· 1986-10-14· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Nolan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-03-20· cited 38×
• United States v. Baird
  First Circuit· 2013-04-05· cited 36×
• United States v. Culbertson
  Second Circuit· 2012-02-03· cited 33×
• United States v. Robert D. O'Hara
  Second Circuit· 1992-03-24· cited 31×
• United States v. David Punch
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-06-29· cited 30×
• State v. Schulz
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-07-15· cited 28×
• Collin Montgomery v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1988-07-28· cited 26×
• United States v. Prado
  Second Circuit· 2019-08-05· cited 25×
• United States v. Rodney Ralph Calkins
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-06-25· cited 16×
• Jessica A. Lihlakha v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2014-04-24· cited 16×
• Mackey v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2012-07-26· cited 15×
• State of Iowa v. Harry Jay Perkins Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-12-09· cited 13×
• Joseph Fama v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1990-04-25· cited 11×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• United States v. Timmreck
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-21· cited 1,059×
• Dyer v. MacDougall
  Second Circuit· 1952-12-31· cited 372×
• United States v. Winston Eugene Dayton
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-10-18· cited 239×
• United States v. Howard E. Saft
  Second Circuit· 1977-07-05· cited 135×
• Bolivar Irizarry v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1975-01-23· cited 89×
• Harold Omar Mack v. United States
  First Circuit· 1980-12-03· cited 85×
• United States v. Howard Horsley, Ronald Miller A/K/A Bugs. Appeal of Howard Horsley
  Third Circuit· 1979-06-07· cited 79×
• United States v. Melvin C. Wetterlin
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-09-27· cited 74×
• Slaughter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-04-25· cited 44×
• Seymour Kloner v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1976-05-10· cited 41×
• United States v. J. A. Ray Neel, AKA Ray Henry Barnes, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-02-01· cited 34×
• Joseph K. Majko v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1972-03-16· cited 22×
• Joseph Seiller v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1975-12-01· cited 21×
• Virgil Alessi v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1979-03-07· cited 18×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Roy James Metz v. James F. Maroney, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1969-04-01· cited 15×
• Vincent Rizzo v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1975-05-19· cited 12×
• Wentworth v. Day
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1841-11-15· cited 2×
• Jenkins v. Kelren
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1859-03-15· cited 2×