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Ninth Circuit rejects "en masse" plea process for illegal entry cases in Arizona

By Douglas A. Berman

A Ninth Circuit panel today handed down an interesting ruling that seem to have the potential to upset a whole lot of federal criminal convictions in at least one district. The ruling comes in US v. Roblero-Solis, No. 08-10396 (9th Cir. Dec. 2, 2009) (available here), and here is how the opinion starts: To accommodate the enormous number of prosecutions for illegal entry into the United States, the district court for the District of Arizona (Tucson) has adopted a procedure for the taking of pleas en masse intended to preserve the rudiments of Fed. R. Crim. P. 11 and the constitution.  We were informed by the government in this case that one magistrate judge is assigned each week full time to the handling of these cases and that in twelve months? time the court has handled 25,000...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 02, 2009 (boomark / email).