United States v. Michael Journet

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises a question of importance to district judges accepting guilty pleas, i. e., whether a guilty plea must be invalidated where the district judge, in ascertaining whether such a plea is voluntarily and intelligently made, advises the defendant of most of the constitutional rights referred to in the recently amended version of Rule 11(c), F.R.Cr.P., 1 effective December 1, 1975, but fails explicitly to inform him of certain other constitutional rights and other matters enumerated in that Rule. We hold that unless the defendant is specifically informed of…