United States Seventh Circuit

Where defendant's pre-sentencing report indicated that he would be subject to career offender status, and defendant acknowledges that the report was read and explained to him numerous times, an errant prediction by counsel as to the length of his sentence does invalidate his guilty plea.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/19/2001
• Decided 06/28/2001
• Published 06/28/2001

Judges

• FLAUM, Chief Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and WOOD, Jr., and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Major R. Coleman (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Richard D. Biggs (argued), Atlanta, GA, Marcia G. Shein, Shein & Biggs, Decatur, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.