The Court: …Having read the presentence report and the statement you made to the probation office, I want to be certain that you know what you are doing and you did know that when you entered a plea of guilty the other day.

Defendant Brady: Yes, I do.Upon his acceptance of his plea the trial judge imposed sentence of fifty years imprisonment, later reduced to thirty.

Brady argued that every guilty plea entered under § 1201 was invalid when the fear of death is shown to have been a factor.

He quotes from United States v. Jackson "the fact that the Federal Kidnapping Act tends to discourage defendants from insisting upon their innocence and demanding a jury trial by jury hardly implies that every defendant who enters a guilty plea to a charge under the Act does so involuntarily."

He entered his guilty plea with full knowledge and willingness; it was not the court's fault that the defendant did not anticipate United States v. Jackson.