Legal Opinion
United States v. James Francis McGovern
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 6, 1987No. 86-5318PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The sole issue before us is whether James F. McGovern’s plea agreement with the United States, which called for prosecution on a single count proposed by McGovern based on the violation of a banking regulation with a sentence of one year, mandates dismissal of a later indictment and reversal of the judgment of conviction. The district court 1 accepted McGovern’s guilty plea conditioned on the court’s review of the pre-sentence investigation report, but at sentencing the district court rejected the plea agreement as against public policy and entered a not guilty…
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