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Criminal Law: Appeal Waiver-Guilty Plea
Staff Report//May 23, 2019//
Where a defendant filed a pro se brief, arguing that his guilty plea was involuntary due to cognitive impairments from medication, the record showed that he assured the district court that he was not impaired, and he acknowledged that he had given up his rights to a jury trial and that his plea was voluntary, so the guilty plea was valid and the challenge to the sentence was thus barred, and the judgment is affirmed due to the defendant’s arguments including speedy trial, venue and prosecutorial misconduct.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Reed (MLW No. 73206/Case No. 18-2375 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota.
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