Legal Opinion
United States v. Jamal T. Norris
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 23, 2007No. 04-2073PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge, with whom LOKEN, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN, ARNOLD, RILEY and SMITH, Circuit Judges, join.
The Government withdrew from a signed plea agreement with defendant Jamal T. Norris. Although the district court had not yet accepted Norris’s plea of guilty, it granted Norris’s motion for specific performance of the plea agreement. The Government appeals, arguing that because Norris’s guilty plea was never accepted, Norris has no grounds upon which to enforce the plea agreement. For the reasons discussed below, we agree with the Government and reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
The Government’s…
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