United States v. David Wayne Monroe

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “courts may consider the whole record when considering whether Rule 11 error occurred or prejudiced a defendant”
• concluding, in the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 context, that a reviewing court may consult the whole record when considering whether a guilty-plea error occurred or prejudiced the defendant
• explaining that plain error review, unlike harmless error review, puts “the burden of persuasion with respect to prejudice or the effect on substantial rights” on the defendant, not the government
• describing Telemaque as a case in which there was “a total failure” to explain the charge
• “Under plain-error review, the silent defendant has the burden to show the error plain, prejudicial, and disreputable to the judicial system.” (quotations omitted)
• “[T]his Court has not automatically reversed a conviction simply because a defendant has shown a Rule 11 error.”

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