Title: The Story of Rule 410 and United States v. Mezzanatto: Using Plea Statements at Trial
Abstract: In 1975 Congress simultaneously adopted Federal Rule of Evidence 410 and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(e)(6), both of which prohibited, in virtually identical language, evidentiary use of withdrawn guilty pleas and statements made during failed plea negotiations. Twenty years later, in United States v. Mezzanatto, the United States Supreme Court held that a criminal defendant may waive the protection provided in these rules. This paper, to be published in Foundation Press' Evidence Stories, is the story of those rules and that case.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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