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Robert Brady Was Pled Not Guilty

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In 1959, Robert Brady was charged with kidnapping, which inflicted capital punishment if convicted by the jury. Brady first pled not guilty, but once he learned that his partner in crime agreed to plead guilty and testify against Brady, he later changed his plea of not guilty, to guilty. Brady’s plea was accepted, after being questioned on his voluntariness of the plea, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison, which was later lessened to 30 years. Afterwards, in 1967, Brady requested post-conviction relief stating that under 28 U.S.C 2255, “his guilty plea was not voluntarily given because 1201 (a) persuaded his plea from his counsel… also that the trial judge had not complied with Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Brady v.

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