United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of a motion to withdraw a guilty plea for knowingly attempting to bring a loaded semiautomatic pistol on an airplane is affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) he did not know the gun was loaded when he gave it to airport personnel, thus undermining the factual basis of his guilty plea; and 2) the district court applied the wrong legal standard in evaluating the motion.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/03/2007
• Decided 01/25/2008
• Published 01/25/2008

Judges

• COFFEY, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, RIPPLE, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carol L. Kraft (argued), Penelope L. Coblentz, Office of the United States Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Lewis A. Wasserman (argued), Kies & Wasserman, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.