DILLON

v.

UNITED STATES; AND CROWLEY V. UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Peel v. State, 150 So. 2d 281 (Fla. 2d DCA 1963)
  …The Court rejected the defendant’s contention that no valid plea of nolo con-tendere could be made where the offense charged was punishable by a mandatory penalty of imprisonment. In Dillon v. United States (8 Cir., 1940), 113 F. 2d 334, cert. den. 311 U.S. 689, 61 S.Ct 71, 72, 85 L.Ed. 445, 446, a case in which the defendants pleaded nolo con-tendere to an indictment for mail fraud, the Court said: “ * * * It is settled that the pleas of nolo contendere were confessions of guilt for the purpose of the cas…
• United States v. Prince, 533 F.2d 205 (5th Cir. 1976)
  …290 F. 2d 217 (5th Cir. 1961), similarly a plea of nolo contendere is not properly challengable, at least as to non-jurisdictional and non-constitutional grounds, by such a motion. Gf. Dillon v. United States, 113 F. 2d 334 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 311 U.S. 689, 61 S.Ct. 71, 85 L.Ed. 445 (1940). See generally Lott v. United States, 367 U.S. 421, 426, 81 S.Ct. 1563, 1566, 6 L.Ed.2d 940, 944 (1961). Accordingly, the district court did not err in denying appellants’ motions for a new trial. II. Motions to Wi…
• United States v. Gargano, 338 F.2d 893 (6th Cir. 1964)
  …held that a defendant has no valid ground of complaint solely because a co-defendant receives a more favorable sentence than he. United States v. Mann, 108 F. 2d 354, 356, C.A.7th; Dillon v. United States, 113 F. 2d 334, 339, C.A.8th, cert. denied, 311 U.S. 689, 61 S.Ct. 71, 85 L.Ed. 445. However, it was held in United States v. Wiley, 278 F. 2d 500, 503, C.A.7th, that in an exceptional ease, where the facts point convincingly to the conclusion that the district court has, without any justification, arbi…