Mabry v. Johnson

While serving concurrent sentences, Johnson (defendant) accepted a prosecutor's offer of a 21-year concurrent sentence for pleading guilty as an accessory to felony murder, but the prosecutor later withdrew that offer as a mistake and instead offered a 21-year consecutive sentence, which Johnson rejected before the case went to a mistrial; Johnson then accepted the second offer and received the 21-year consecutive sentence. Johnson's habeas petition was denied by the district court but granted by the appellate court, which held fairness barred withdrawing an accepted plea-bargain offer, and the Supreme Court granted certiorari.