Legal Opinion
United States v. William C. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 8, 1971No. 18700, 18701PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge.
The only issue raised by these appeals is whether a person who pleads guilty to a charge of a federal narcotics law violation, without knowledge that he will be ineligible for parole from the sentence he receives, enters his guilty plea voluntarily with an understanding of the consequences of such plea.
Defendant William C. Smith was charged in two two-count indictments with violations of the narcotics laws.1 Desiring to change his plea to Count II of each indictment2 from not guilty to guilty, defendant was brought before the district court on February 3, 1969.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Halliday v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Anthony Joseph Munich v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1964
- Epifanio Trujillo v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by83 opinions
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- Robert Lebern Lucas, Jr., Cross-Appellee v. United States of America, Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1992
- White v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1986
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