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Plea Withdrawal

By: Derek Hawkins//August 22, 2016//

Plea Withdrawal

By: Derek Hawkins//August 22, 2016//

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Daniel Haslam

Case No.: 14-2641

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, POSNER and SYKES, Circuit Judges

Focus: Plea Withdrawal

Appellant plea agreement did not limit information the government could use in sentencing.

“We don’t need to resolve this apparent tension in our caselaw today. As we’ve noted, the government does not contest our authority to address Haslam’s claim that his plea agreement is invalid because it was not knowingly made. That question is tightly bound with the question of breach. Here, both questions turn on whether the agreement included a promise that the government would not inform the court of the Sample incident at sentencing. If there was no such promise, as the government contends, then the agreement is enforceable and it also necessarily follows that the government did not commit a breach.”

Affirmed

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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