United States Third Circuit

A conviction and sentence pursuant to a guilty plea to willful failure to file income tax returns is affirmed over claims that: 1) when defendant entered his plea of guilty the court failed to exercise the "special care" required during colloquies in cases involving tied plea agreements; 2) the government breached a promise in the plea agreement to "[m]ake no recommendation as to the sentence"; and 3) the court imposed an unreasonably long custodial sentence on him.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/08/2008
• Published 02/08/2008

Judges

• Before:  RENDELL, GREENBERG, and VAN ANTWERPEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Goldberger, Pamela A. Wilk, Ardmore, PA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick L. Meehan, United States Attorney, Robert A. Zauzmer, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief of Appeals, Karen L. Grigsby, Assistant United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, for appellee.