Ybarra v. Nevada State Employees Federal Credit Union

How later courts describe this case

• guilty plea voluntary even though counsel wrongly told defendant the federal court could make his federal sentence concurrent with a state sentence
• trial judge advised non-deadlocked jury it could recommend leniency but that the question of punishment was up to the court and shortly thereafter jury returned guilty verdict with no recommendation of leniency
• courts examined for plain error where no offer of proof made, but found no plain error
• wherein the defendant was not allowed to withdraw his guilty plea even though his counsel incorrectly informed him that, if he pleaded guilty, the federal court could order his state and federal sentences to run concurrently