United States v. Bowlin

How courts have described this case

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

• “A mistake about the substantive offense goes to the heart of the guilty plea; a mistake about the possible sentence … does not.”
• “A mistake about the substantive offense goes to the heart of the guilty plea; a mistake about the possible sentence … does not.”
• “We have repeatedly held that the fact that a defendant underestimated his sentence when entering his plea is not a fair and just reason to permit him to withdraw that guilty plea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).