United States v. Harvey Russell Wright, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• “Having pled guilty, a defendant’s only avenue for challenging his conviction is to claim that he did not voluntarily or intelligently enter his plea.” (citations omitted)
• “[U]nder certain limited circumstances, the prosecution’s violation of Brady can render a defendant’s plea involuntary.”
• “The Supreme Court has often reiterated that a defendant’s guilty plea must be knowing and intelligent to be a constitutional basis for conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).