United States v. Hobert J. Barrett, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• assigning the case to a new judge on remand “[t]o cure th[e] improper judicial participation in the plea bargaining process”
• \This court's role is not to weigh the judge's statements to determine whether they were so oppressive as to abrogate the voluntariness of the plea.\
• \Courts ... have uniformly held that [Rule 11] means what it says: the court shall not participate in any plea agreement negotiations.\
• \The primary reason for Rule 11 is that a judge's participation in plea negotiation is inherently coercive\
• \The primary reason for Rule 11 is that a judge's participation in plea negotiation is inherently coercive\
• \Courts ... have uniformly held that [Rule 11] means what it says: the court shall not participate in any plea agreement negotiations.\

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