United States v. Christopher Wood

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the district court’s plea colloquy with a defendant is the proceeding that conclusively \establish[es] that the defendant knowingly and voluntarily enters his plea\
• explaining that the plea colloquy is the avenue by which the court conclusively \establish[es] that the defendant knowingly and voluntarily enters his plea\
• explaining that this Court “hold[s] the Government to a greater degree of responsibility than the defendant (or possibly than would be either of the parties to commercial contracts) for imprecisions or ambiguities in plea agreements.”
• “Modification of the terms of a plea agreement is beyond the power of the district court.” (cleaned up)
• “Modification of the terms of a plea agreement is beyond the power of the district court.” (cleaned up)
• citing, in part, McGovern, 822 F.2d at 743

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).