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Vincente Zambada Intent To Enter Guilty Plea Full Transcript
Vincente Zambada Intent To Enter Guilty Plea Full Transcript
1 APPEARANCES: (Continued)
2 For the Defendant: MR. FRANK A. PEREZ
Law Office of Frank A. Perez
3 9110 Scyene Road
Dallas, TX 75227
4 (214) 828-9911
E-mail: [email protected]
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Case: 1:18-cr-00484 Document #: 7 Filed: 12/03/18 Page 3 of 27 PageID #:45
1 to place you under oath and ask you questions about this
2 matter, but before I do that, I want you to understand that if
3 at any point you have a question, you're free to ask me a
4 question, or, in the alternative, you can ask me to stop these
02:04:48 5 proceedings so that you can speak to your attorneys privately.
6 I also need to warn you that any false answers to
7 questions that I pose to you could needlessly aggravate your
8 sentence and, in fact, subject you to additional charges for
9 what are known as the crimes of perjury or false statement.
02:05:13 10 And, finally, when I ask you to confirm the
11 government's summary of its evidence against you, you're going
12 to be waiving your right not to testify against yourself, and
13 some of your answers may be incriminating and certainly you'll
14 have to admit your guilt of these charges before I could ever
02:05:35 15 consider accepting a plea of guilty to these charges.
16 Do you understand what I've told you so far?
17 THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor.
18 THE COURT: Then we will place you under oath.
19 (Defendant sworn.)
02:05:59 20 THE DEFENDANT: I accept it.
21 THE COURT: How far did you go in school?
22 THE DEFENDANT: Up to high school, Your Honor.
23 THE COURT: And are you in good physical health at
24 this time.
02:06:08 25 THE DEFENDANT: Sorry?
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1 plead guilty.
2 I will then look at your background and whether or
3 not you have any criminal background or experience with the
4 United States criminal justice system, and it seems that you
02:12:30 5 don't, so you're going to be the lowest Criminal History
6 Category.
7 Once I look at that, it's anticipated that the
8 advisory sentencing guideline range is going to be a Level 43,
9 but I will make the final determination, but if it does turn
02:12:52 10 out to be a Level 43, the advisory sentencing guideline range
11 will be life imprisonment, but that is an advisory range.
12 What you do need to know is that the charge that
13 you're pleading guilty to has a minimum statutory sentence of
14 ten years, so that there is no easy way for me to sentence you
02:13:21 15 less than ten years.
16 Do you understand that?
17 THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor.
18 THE COURT: Now, in Paragraph 11 of this plea
19 agreement, it says that you're agreeing to fully and
02:13:36 20 truthfully cooperate in any matter in which you are called
21 upon to cooperate by a representative of the United States
22 Attorney's Office, and that this cooperation will include
23 complete and truthful information in any investigation and
24 pretrial preparation and complete and truthful testimony in
02:14:04 25 any criminal, civil or administrative proceeding.
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