United States v. Burch, Larry D.

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• extending the majority opinion in Mezzanatto to allow the admission of plea statements in the case-in-chief
• noting that the defendant “specifically had waived his rights under [Rule 410]” “in a Rule 11 colloquy with the trial judge prior to entering the plea” as well as “[i]n his plea agreement,” which the trial judge accepted at the same hearing
• admitting a prior drug conviction under 404(b) but emphasizing that Defendant was selling the same substance (crack cocaine) and on the same block as his previous offense
• “Implausible as Mr. Burch’s belated claim of innocence may seem, the Court will give Mr. Burch his day in court.”
• the defendant’s plea agreement specifically waived his rights under Rules 11(e)(6) and 410
• “[I]n the absence of an affirmative indication that Congress intended to preclude or to limit the waiver of statutory protections . . . voluntary agreements to waive [those] protections are presumptively enforceable[.]”

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