United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of motion to withdraw a guilty plea to a drug conspiracy charge is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in ruling that the defense counsel had not rendered ineffective assistance and that the defendant had not provided a fair and just reason for withdrawing his plea.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/16/2007
• Decided 05/01/2007
• Published 05/01/2007

Judges

• FLAUM, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, RIPPLE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard N. Cox (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Urbana Division, Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Phillip J. Kavanaugh, Stephen C. Williams (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, East St. Louis, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.