United States v. Anthony Gregg

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• explaining that a guilty plea “conclusively resolves the question of factual guilt supporting the conviction, thereby rendering any antecedent constitutional violation bearing on factual guilt a non-issue”
• explaining that the Menna exception is only relevant where the factual guilt for the criminal conviction being challenged was not conclusively established by the petitioner’s voluntary guilty plea
• explaining that “a guilty plea does not ‘waive’ constitutional challenges so much as it conclusively resolves the question of factual guilt supporting the conviction, thereby rendering any antecedent constitutional violation bearing on factual guilt a non-issue”
• “[A] petitioner may not assert pre-plea constitutional violations bearing on the valid establishment of his factual guilt.”
• “[A] guilty plea . . . conclusively resolves the question of factual guilt supporting the conviction, thereby rendering any antecedent constitutional violation bearing on factual guilt a non-issue[.]”

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