James Gomez v. Gerald A. Berge, Warden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• guilty plea waives “all formal defects in the proceedings, including any constitu‐ tional violations that occurred before the plea was entered”
• by pleading guilty, defendant waived argument that he was incompetent to represent himself
• “It is well established that an unconditional plea of guilty operates as a waiver of all formal defects in the proceedings, including any constitutional violations that occurred before the plea was entered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).