United States v. Gustavo Battle

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

It is exceedingly rare that the same direct appeal from a criminal conviction is twice before the Court, but this is such a case. On direct appeal from a conviction based on a guilty plea appellant charged that the conviction was invalid because the plea was induced by certain “misrepresentations” of the Government. We remanded for full development of the facts. A supplemental evi-dentiary hearing was held and the District Court has filed formal findings of fact and reaffirmed his earlier sentence. We affirm.

The earlier opinion in this case succinctly defined the…