Brandon Frank Stricker v. United States

Whether, under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, a district court is required to conduct a more searching inquiry into a defendant’s understanding of how his admitted conduct satisfies the essential elements of the offense when the defendant denies a substantial portion of the government’s offer of proof (including the essential element) during the plea colloquy, or whether the court may instead rely on counsels’ summary assertions that the remaining admitted conduct is sufficient to support the plea.