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· 9/5/1973

United States v. Tyrone Gaskins

Citations

  • 485 F.2d 1046
  • 158 U.S. App. D.C. 267
  • 1973 U.S. App. LEXIS 8053

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “it is an abuse of discretion to refuse a guilty plea solely because the defendant does not admit the alleged facts of the crime”
  • All three cases were decided by the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
  • refusal to accept guilty plea solely because defendant does not admit facts of crime is abuse of discretion
  • guilty plea rejected because defendant refused to admit that he committed the crime
  • guilty plea rejected because defendant refused to admit that he committed the crime

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Judges: Wright, Leventhal

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