UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON

No. 81-2117.

698 F.2d 703 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Julius Carroll ROBERTSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Hoppe, III, Slidell, La., for defendant-appellant.

Dane Smith, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tyler, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, RANDALL and TATE, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The questions this appeal raises are whether a stipulation admitting the essential facts of a criminal offense should be treated as equivalent to a guilty plea and whether the stipulation coupled with a reservation of nonjurisdictional defenses in a motion to dismiss should be treated as equivalent to a conditional plea of guilty, not tolerated in this circuit.1 We hold that in the absence of prosecutorial coercion...

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