United States v. James R. Gibson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• court vacates illegal sentence, conviction, guilty plea and acceptance thereof after defendant seeks permission to void entire plea agreement because it led to imposition of illegal sentence
• “[B]ecause this error is apparent from the language of [the statute], the error was ‘plain.’”
• Defendants who bargain for a specific sentence cannot appeal that sentence unless the guilty plea was involuntary, the sentence was imposed in violation of the law, or the sentence is greater than the one he bargained for.
• defining scrivener’s errors to include “typing an incorrect number”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).