United States v. Javier Torrez-Flores

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a probation revocation raises two issues, first, whether the trial judge violated Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure when he accepted a guilty plea from defendant-appellant who was Spanish speaking and did not understand English; and second, whether the court erred in revoking defendant’s probation on the basis of his misrepresentation that he had no prior convictions. Because we hold that defendant may not collaterally attack his underlying conviction at a probation revocation hearing, we do not reach the merits of defendant’s Rule 11…