holding a U.S. Attorney of one district had authority to enter into a plea bargain, in connection with a federal crime with “multistate ramifications,” “agreeing that all offenses in the other jurisdictions [arising out of that crime] would be disposed of in the single case”
How later courts described this case
- holding a U.S. Attorney of one district had authority to enter into a plea bargain, in connection with a federal crime with “multistate ramifications,” “agreeing that all offenses in the other jurisdictions [arising out of that crime] would be disposed of in the single case”
- holding that violations of plea agreements “are intolerable and adversely impact the integrity of the prosecutorial office and the entire judicial system”
- holding that if the district court were to find that the United States government promised to prosecute the defendant only in the District of Columbia, then the government was barred from prosecuting in the Eastern District of Virginia
- finding that where the government negotiates a plea agreement through the agency of a specific United States Attorney, the agreement binds the United States government at large
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
BUTZNER, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
I concur in remanding this case for an evidentiary hearing on the motion to dismiss, but I think we should refrain from making a decision until we know all the facts.