Court Opinion

ID: 9455579
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:26:14.978695+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:38.837391
License: Public Domain

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
The District Judge, I think, was devoutly faithful to Rule 11. For me the appellant overpictures his contra convention. Moreover, the trial judge endeavored to observe the universal truth that a plea of guilty, to be acceptable and accepted, must be unequivocal: otherwise it is to be rejected, and a plea of not guilty, with a trial, substituted.
However, I am apprehensive that Tucker’s was not a “full” plea of guilty. Instead, it might be termed a guilty-yet-not-guilty plea — that is one voluntarily given with an understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea, but tendered nonetheless with an uncertainty. In the circumstances here, there is, to me, an obscurity about the uncertainty, but it seems to pertain to his factual part in the indictment conduct. For this reason I approve vacation of the sentence, with inquisition on remand upon whether the defendant’s plea was free of any reservation in acknowledging his guilt.