Court Opinion

ID: 9480914
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:02:44.908134+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:00.050210
License: Public Domain

BAILEY BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge,
dissenting only to II-A of opinion.
I dissent as to the “remand ... to the district court so that the district judge can articulate his reasons for rejecting Moore’s guilty plea.”
Even if we accept the view that a district judge, in refusing to accept a plea agreement tendered under Rule 11(e)(1)(C) must “articulate the reasons,” it appears to me that the judge did so. As set out in this court’s opinion, the judge articulates that he refuses to accept the plea with an agreed disposition because the parties had delayed until the day of the trial, with prospective jurors present and time set aside to try the case, to tender this guilty plea with an agreed sentence to be considered by the court.
It may be that the majority opinion really means that the reason as articulated was not sufficient and that the remand is to articulate another reason. However, since, as is stated in the majority opinion, the test to be applied here is whether the district judge abused his discretion, I believe the reason articulated supports a determination that he did not abuse his discretion.
I, therefore, dissent from the order of remand.