The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Lopez-Beltran, 607 F.2d 1223 (9th Cir. 1979):
Our own circuit has held that the defendant's acquiescence in the Rule 11 procedures by signing a written guilty plea application containing all of the required items of disclosure is inadequate, for it must appear that the inquiry was undertaken on the record. United States v. Del Prete, 567 F.2d 928, 930 (9th Cir.1978) (failure to describe consequences of special parole term).
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