United States v. Rafael Garcia-Valenzuela

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• suggesting that “[w]here a defendant consents to the government’s mo[tion] to dismiss, it is not clear that the district court has any discretion to deny the government’s motion”
• listing issues reviewable after an unconditional guilty plea, including the constitutionality of the underlying statute and that the indictment fails to state an offense
• whether the prosecution’s motion to dismiss is made in “good faith” is “of fundamental importance in deciding whether to grant leave of court under Rule 48(a)”
• “The Court in Menna drew a fundamental distinction between post-plea constitutional challenges that implicated the factual guilt of the defendant, and those that were independent of factual guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).