Cert Granted in Rule 11 Guilty Plea Case
The Supreme Court granted cert today on one issue in No. 03-167, United States v. Benitez - regarding guilty pleas.
"Whether, in order to show that a violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 constitutes reversible plain error, a defendant must demonstrate that he would not have pleaded guilty if the violation had not occurred."
[link via ScotusBlog]
Update: Here is what the case is about and what's at issue in non-lawyer terms.
The article contains an interesting statistic from Solicitor General Ted Olson who filed the Government's cert petition: 95% of all federal convictions resulted from guilty pleas last year.
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