United States v. Julius Carroll Robertson

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The questions this appeal raises are whether a stipulation admitting the essential facts of a criminal offense should be treated as equivalent to a guilty plea and whether the stipulation coupled with a reservation of nonjurisdictional defenses in a motion to dismiss should be treated as equivalent to a conditional plea of guilty, not tolerated in this circuit.1 We hold that in the absence of prosecutorial coercion or cajolery the stipulation was equivalent to in-court testimony in a trial, that the defendant, represented by counsel, never intended the stipulation to…