United States v. Geovanni Alfonso Casallas

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• holding that defendant must be permitted to withdraw his guilty plea if the district court participated in the plea discussions
• holding that the district court violated Rule 11 when it compared the minimum plea sentence with the minimum trial sentence during the plea colloquy and encouraged the defendant to discuss the sentencing disparity with his attorney
• holding a district court’s statements violated Rule 11 when the plea agreement had not yet been reached and was still being negotiated
• plea vacated when the court emphasized to defendant who declined to plead guilty that he would receive a ten-year minimum sentence under the proposed agreement but risked the fifteen-year mandatory minimum if he were convicted after trial

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