042073P.pdf   04/23/2007  United States  v.  Jamal T. Norris
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2073
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Circuit Judges Loken, Chief
   Judge, Wollman, Arnold, Riley, and Smith, Circuit Judges, en banc]
   Criminal Case - criminal law. District court's grant of specific
   performance of signed plea agreement, withdrawn by the government
   before acceptance of the guilty plea by the district court, is
   reversed. Due process rights do not attach and detrimental reliance
   theory does not apply until district court accepts plea. Government
   may not use prior admissions to gain unfair advantage in future
   proceedings and pre-plea performance agreements may be specifically
   enforced before acceptance by the district court. Judges Colloton
   and Murphy concur in judgment. Judges Bright, Bye, Melloy, and
   Benton, dissent. 
  
042073P.pdf   03/10/2006  United States  v.  Jamal T. Norris
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2073
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Bright and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - criminal law. District court did not err in granting 
   defendant's motion for specific performance of a signed plea agreement.