United States First Circuit

District court did not abuse its discretion in denying the plea withdrawal motion, motivated by the disappointing news that the government's recommended sentence would be ten years rather than eight, or by refusing to grant a continuance of the second sentencing hearing after defendant fled from the first.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2004
• Published 03/29/2004

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John H. LaChance, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory Moffatt, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.