involuntary guilty plea
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 368 U.S. 487 - MacHibroda v. United States · 1962Most cited · 3,638 citing opinions
A guilty plea, if induced by promises or threats which deprive it of the character of a voluntary act, is void. A conviction based upon such a plea is open to collateral attack.
How often courts cite the case defining “involuntary guilty plea”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “involuntary guilty plea” — 3,635 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.