U.S. v. Dewalt, No. 95-3103 (D.C. Cir.) (92 F.3d 1209) (August 20, 1996) (Judge Douglas Ginsburg)
Loaded on Sept. 1, 1996
published in Punch and Jurists
September 23, 1996
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Knowingly and Voluntarily Made.
Here the Court reversed a gun conviction due to the failure of the district court adequately to notify the defendant of the nature of the charges to which he pleading guilty in violation of Fed.R.Crim.P 11(c)(1).
This is one of those enigmatic decisions in which the D.C. Circuit …
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