Legal Opinion
United States v. Alcala
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 3, 2012No. 11-2412PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Hipólito Alcala pled guilty to a single count of unlawfully using a communication facility to further a drug trafficking offense. After the district court accepted his plea, but before sentencing, he moved to withdraw his plea. Despite the fact that, in his plea agreement, he waived his right to appeal his conviction, he now attempts to appeal the district court’s denial of his motion to withdraw his plea. He argues that he did not knowingly and voluntarily waive his right to appeal, stressing his background as a native Spanish-speaker with an eighth grade education. We…
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