United States v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
On this appeal from a denial of a motion to withdraw a guilty plea, we follow the harmless error provisions of Rule 11(h) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, reject a per se rule for reversal, and hold that when a court accepting a guilty plea fails to verbally inform the defendant of a mandatory minimum sentence, that error may be harmless when a written plea agreement referred to during the plea colloquy properly describes the statutory mandatory minimum sentence.
While on probation for another crime, the defendant, Randy Jones, purchased two firearms at a pawnshop in Sandersville,…
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