United States v. Edmund Tanios Elias

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• holding that a defendant’s dissatisfaction with the length of his sentence is insufficient reason to allow withdrawal of a guilty plea
• “A court may satisfy Rule 11 and constitutional standards by explaining in plain terms the nature of the charges.”
• \A defendant's dissatisfaction with the length of his sentence generally is insufficient reason to withdraw a plea.\
• \A court may satisfy Rule 11 ... by explaining in plain terms the nature of the charge.\
• “Because a section 922 offense does not require specific intent, Elias cannot complain his attorney’s failure to advise him about [specific intent] constitutes incompetence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).