WRITE ON PACKET CONTENTS
Georgetown University Law Center
2014 Write On Competition
This document lists the primary and secondary sources included in the 2014 Write On
Competition and summarizes the cases. Following the principal case (on which you should focus
your case comment) are the remaining sources listed by type.
Principal Case (9 pages)
United States v. Michael Lee Harvey
791 F.2d 294 (4th Cir. 1986) (9 pages)
U.S. Supreme Court Cases (35 pages)
William J. McCarthy v. United States
394 U.S. 459 (1969) (11 pages)
Robert M. Brady v. United States
397 U.S. 742 (1970) (11 pages)
Rudolph Santobello v. New York
404 U.S. 257 (1971) (7 pages)
James Mabry v. George Johnson
467 U.S. 504 (1984) (6 pages)
U.S. Circuit Court Cases (136 pages)
United States v. William Eugene Carter
454 F.2d 426 (4th Cir. 1972) (6 pages)
United States v. Virgil Alessi
544 F2d. 1139 (2d Cir. 1976) (15 pages)
United States v. Andrew “Andre” D’Apice
664 F.2d 75 (5th Cir. 1981) (5 pages)
United States v. Sami Annabi
771 F.2d 670 (2d Cir. 1985) (3 pages)
United States v. Carmine Persico
774 F.2d 30 (2d Cir. 1985) (4 pages)
United States v. Andrew T. Russo
801 F.2d 624 (2d Cir. 1986)(4 pages)
In re William Bruce Arnett
804 F.2d 1200 (11th Cir. 1986) (5 pages)
Gary Staten v. Michael V. Neal
880 F.2d 962 (7th Cir. 1989) (5 pages)
United States v. George Ingram
979 F.2d 1179 (7th Cir. 1992) (8 pages)
Clive Charles Thomas v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
35 F.3d 1332 (9th Cir. 1994) (19 pages)
Alejandro Margalli-Olvera v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
43 F.3d 345 (8th Cir. 1994) (14 pages)
United States v. David G. Van Thournout
100 F.3d. 590 (8th Cir. 1996) (7 pages)
United States v. Jerry Lee Johnston
199 F.3d 1015 (9th Cir. 1999) (9 pages)
United States v. Melvin Lee Randolph
230 F.3d 243 (6th Cir. 2000) (10 pages)
United States v. James M. Gebbie
294 F.3d 540 (10th Cir. 2002) (11 pages)
United States v. Peter Robert Jordan
509 F.3d 191 (4th Cir. 2007) (11 pages)
U.S. District Courts and State Courts (80 pages)
United States v. Rene Boulier
359 F. Supp. 165 (E.D. N.Y. 1972) (6 pages)
United States v. Herbert Lieber
473 F.Supp. 884 (E.D. N.Y. 1979) (12 pages)
Joe Edward Lee v. State of Florida
501 So.2d 591 (Fla. 1987) (4 pages)
United States v. Albert Laskow
688 F.Supp. 851 (E.D. N.Y. 1988) (6 pages)
State of Montana v. Kenneth Yother
831 P.2d 1347 (Mont. 1992) (7 pages)
State of Montana v. Jimmy Rae Bowley
938 P.2d 592 (Mont. 1997) (10 pages)
State of Washington v. Mark B. Harris
6 P.3d 1218 (Wash. Ct. App. 2000) (9 pages)
United States v. Tyrone Smallwood
293 F.Supp.2d 631 (E.D.Va. 2003) (13 pages)
Norman Glenn Elmore v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
236 S.W.3d 623 (Ct. App. Ky. 2007 (6 pages)
State of Idaho v. Carey Mitchell Baker
2014 WL 1266122 (Idaho 2014) (7 pages)
Constitutional and Statutory Provisions (14 pages)
U.S. CONST. amend. V (1 page)
FEDERAL RULE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 11 (4 pages)
RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF CONTRACTS § 209 (1981) (2 pages)
RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF CONTRACTS § 213 (1981) (3 pages)
RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF CONTRACTS § 214 (1981) (2 pages)
RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF CONTRACTS § 215 (1981) (2 pages)
Secondary Sources – Legal (37 pages)
Tina M. Woehr, Note, The Use of Parol Evidence in Interpretation of Plea Agreements,
110 COLUM. L. REV. 840 (April 2010) (37 pages)
Secondary Sources – Popular (8 pages)
Roger L. Stavis, Federal Plea Agreements Leave Open Risk of Prosecution in Other
Districts, N.Y.L.J. Sept. 28, 2010. (2 pages)
Dennis Whalen, County Prosecutor Lacks Authority to Enter Into Plea Agreement For
Crimes Committed Wholly In Another County, CNO – Court News Ohio, available at
http://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2012/SCO/0925/110827.asp#.U1gPxNKshcZ, Sept.
25, 2012. (3 pages)
M. Bettman, Merit Decision: A Prosecutor in One County Cannot Bind the Prosecutor in
Another County to a Plea Agreement. State v. Billingsley, Legally Speaking Ohio,
available at http://www.legallyspeakingohio.com/2012/09/merit-decision-a-prosecutorin-one-county-cannot-bind-the-prosecutor-in-another-county-to-a-plea-agreement-statev-billingsley/, Sept. 26, 2012 (3 pages)