United States v. Arnita Trussel and James Barker

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• noting that an entrapment defense is unlikely to succeed when earlier activity demonstrates predisposition
• describing allegations in defendant’s motion to withdraw plea as “mere conclusions”
• district court properly relied on assertions made in defendant's pro se request to withdraw guilty plea
• defendant filed motion seeking to withdraw guilty plea based on assertions in conflict with statements he made under oath at change of plea hearing
• defendant with two prior federal felony convictions “was no babe in the woods” with respect to the criminal justice system
• even though defendant received 222-month sentence, “his guilty plea was not a bad deal for him” considering that he was facing possible mandatory 30-year sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).