Appellate Practice
Apr. 29, 2006
Panel Holds Prosecutor to Plea Deal
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors, be careful what you promise in plea bargains. That's the underlying message of a federal appellate decision Thursday throwing out the three-strikes sentence of a Riverside convict who had been promised in 1986 that his nine robberies would only ever count as one prior.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors, be careful what you promise in plea bargains.
That's the underlying message of a federal appellate decision Thursday throwing out the three-strikes sentence of a Riverside convict who had been promised in 1986 that his nine robberies would only ever count as one prior.
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