United States v. Rockwell International Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• refusing, in light of an integration clause, to consider evidence that a plea agreement contained an unwritten term
• analyzing plea agreement based upon defendant’s reasonable understanding at the time he entered the plea agreement
• “the second-step reasonableness inquiry is severely limited” by the presence of an integration clause in a plea agreement
• \We will not allow the government to resort to a rigidly literal construction of the language of the plea agreement to frustrate a defendant's reasonable expectations.\ (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting United States v. Shorteeth, 887 F.2d 253, 256 (10th Cir.1989)
• court of appeals will not disturb the trial court’s decision unless it has “a firm and definite conviction[ ] that it made a clear error of judgment or went beyond the boundaries of permissible choice.”
• government’s obligations do not issue from mere silence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).