Morrison v. Sawyer

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a guilty plea admits only \the facts essential to the validity of the conviction\
• holding that the effect of a guilty plea is limited “to an admission of the facts essential to the valid- ity of the conviction”
• holding that the government failed to prove constructive pos- session where defendant occupied residence with several other people
• concluding that admission of statements was proper where there was no evidence that officers coerced or misled the defendant into giving a statement but there was ample proof of voluntariness
• noting that “to attribute to a defendant an admission which was never subject to a plea colloquy under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11 would undermine the rule’s prophylactic purposes”
• vacating sentence based on a guilty plea to an indictment charging a drug conspiracy and alleging that the defendant possessed a gun because gun possession was not an element of the drug conspiracy charge

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