Appellate Law

CA1: plea was valid and entrapment fails

By S. COTUS

US v. Otero, No. 07-1555 holds that in a ?Rule 11" (i.e. a change of plea) proceeding, a defendant was ?aware of the intent element of the drug-trafficking offense? even though the judge didn?t read it out loud.  He raises an ?entrapment? argument, but because he plead guilty and there was no real chance that he would succeed on that defense, that fails, too.

Full post as published by Appellate Law and Practice on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).