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