What part of "pleaded guilty and admitted under oath that his orders were lawful" don't you understand?
If a judge allows only a yes or no answer to “Have you stopped beating your wife”, and then the person, in saying “no”, is found guilty of still beating his wife... that is entrapment.
To deny a person the ability to make the only defense they have is to say that they are either going to admit they are guilty, or be found in contempt of court because they don’t accept the ruling of the judge.
There is no question in my mind at all that Lakin’s due process and Sixth Amendment rights were violated, big-time.
If somebody pleads guilty after not being read their Miranda rights, does their guilty pleading mean that they can’t do anything about the fact that their Miranda rights were violated?