Sanders v. Board of Governors

How courts have described this case

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

• even in bench trial, judge’s incorrect computation of maximum punishment not waived in spite of agreement by defense counsel
• “A plea of guilty may be improvident because it is ‘predicated on a substantial misunderstanding on the accused’s part of the maximum punishment to which he is subject.’”
• plea improvident when accused believed possible punishment was substantially greater than was legally authorized

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).