United States v. Aguilar-Vera, No. 10-10333 (9th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was arrested and charged with violating 8 U.S.C. 1325, a misdemeanor illegal entry by an alien. The next day, defendant was brought before a magistrate judge in federal court in Arizona for a guilty plea proceeding that was part of Operation Streamline, which was "a procedure for taking of pleas en masse." On appeal, defendant contended that his plea violated Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(2). The court has several times before held that certain aspects of group plea proceedings violated various provisions of Rule 11, and the court followed those precedents and again concluded that there was Rule 11 error. However, in United States v. Escamilla-Rojas, the court held that the error was harmless. The court reached the same conclusion here where defendant voluntarily chose to enter the plea and his substantial rights were not affected.
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