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Criminal Law: Sentencing-Guilty Plea-Voluntariness
Staff Report//February 3, 2020//
Where a defendant argued that counsel was ineffective for failing to explain that his plea agreement would prevent him from appealing the denial of an offense level reduction for acceptance of responsibility, the challenge to the voluntariness of his pleas is rejected because the defendant stated that he understood the terms of the agreement, and the judgment is affirmed.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Wilson (MLW No. 74443/Case No. 19-2191 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri.
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