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· 3/9/2000

United States v. Guillermo Fernandez

Citations

  • 205 F.3d 1020
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 3556
  • 2000 WL 260633

How courts have described this case

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  • vacating defendant’s guilty plea and using defendant’s response “[n]ot all of the acts, partially” to the question of whether he had done the things set forth in the government’s proffer as evidence that defendant was confused over the crime to which he was admitting guilt
  • “Unless the defendant fully comprehends the elements of the crime to which he is confessing, his plea cannot be said to have been knowingly and voluntarily entered.”

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Judges: Bauer, Easterbrook, Evans

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