Vincent L. Pilkington v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• statement of court that five years was maximum sentence when, under Federal Youth Corrections Act, maximum sentence was six years
• manifest injustice results when trial court’s misinformation causes defendant to plead guilty
• “The facts disclosed in a hearing might not be sufficient for the court to conclude that the guilty plea was involuntary and violative of due process, yet the court may be of the opinion that clear injustice was done.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).