Friday, December 28, 2012

Seventh Circuit -- USA v. Adebisi Adigun

Even absent colloquy informing deft of the waiver, a guilty plea without a written agreement preserving certain grounds for appeal operates as an unconditional guilty plea waiving all ex ante non-jurisdictional grounds for appeal.

This is jurisdictional - open question as to whether government can waive it, but as govt hasn't in this case, court has no subject matter jurisdiction to hear a suppression challenge.

Courts reasons for denying downward variance make erroneous imposition of old statutory minimum sentence harmless error.

USA v. Adebisi Adigun

Compiled by D.E. Frydrychowski, who is, not incidentally, not giving you legal advice.

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Author's SSRN page here.