Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

West v. United States

W. v. United States, 409 U.S. 880 (1972)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1972-10-10
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • courts should accept allegations as true “except to the extent that they are inherently incredible, merely eonclu-sory rather than statements of fact, or are contradicted by the record”
  • “[I]t is well settled that a defendant’s plea of guilty admits, in legal effect, the facts as charged and waives all non-jurisdictional defenses. Entrapment is a non-jurisdictional defense on the merits and petitioners have waived their right to assert it.” (citing Fifth Circuit precedents
  • no specific claim of misconduct

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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.