Supreme Court· 11/7/1995

Libretti v. United States

Citations

516 U.S. 29
116 S. Ct. 356
133 L. Ed. 2d 271
1995 U.S. LEXIS 7552

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holding that provision regarding forfeiture in a plea agreement related to sentencing, and not to guilt
holding that counsel, not the court, bears the responsibility of advising a defendant of the consequences of a guilty plea, apart from the “small class of rights” enumerated in Rule 11
holding that there is no Sixth Amendment right to a jury verdict in a criminal forfeiture proceeding
holding that criminal forfeiture is an aspect of sentencing
holding that forfeiture is part of the sentencing process
noting that the Advisory Committee’s Notes to the federal equivalent of Article 26.13(a) 5 characterized Boykin as holding that a defendant must be apprised of the fact that he relinquishes certain constitutional rights by pleading guilty

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Judges: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Ii-B, Stevens

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