United States v. Michael Lee Harvey

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• concluding that government’s breach of plea agree- ment implicated due process concerns by impairing voluntary and intelligent nature of plea
• concluding that a plea agreement was ambiguous and examining other evidence in the record to determine whether the government could prosecute the same 12 defendant for related criminal conduct in another federal district
• finding that where disputed provision of plea agreement was ambiguous and evidence showed “honest conflict of understandings,” agreement must be interpreted to mean what defendant reasonably thought it did
• holding government “to a greater degree of responsibility than the defendant” for imprecision in plea agreements
• noting that the government bears the “primary responsibility for insuring precision in [plea] agreement[s]”
• directing transfer of motion to enforce a Virginia plea agreement to South Carolina where appellant faced a new trial on remand because South Carolina was familiar with relationship between both prosecutions

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