Court Opinion

ID: 9457793
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:33:10.677504+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:30.568982
License: Public Domain

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge.
I would grant rehearing en banc to clarify the sufficiency, for purposes of a withdrawal of a guilty plea before sentence, of a showing that defendant was given misleading information concerning a significant, though collateral, consequence of a guilty plea.
The panel opinion states that such collateral consequences do not give a right to withdraw the plea but are only a basis on which the trial judge may exercise his discretion to permit withdrawal of the plea. Even on this assumption, the question arises whether this invocation of discretion can be denied if the record is devoid of a showing of some offsetting element of administration of justice. The Government did not even submit, e. g., that it no longer had available a crucial witness who was available when the guilty plea was taken.
More broadly put, the question is whether the discussion in Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742, 90 S.Ct. 1463, 25 L.Ed.2d 747 (1970) operates to delineate the standard appropriate under Rule 11 for withdrawal of a guilty plea prior to sentence.
These questions seem to me to warrant en banc consideration.