United States v. Sanford R. Morrison

How courts have described this case

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• finding prejudice where the defendant “had waited until the eve of trial before pleading guilty” and the process of preparing the key witnesses was “trauma[tic]”
• affirming the district court’s decision to deny a motion to withdraw a guilty plea when the “purported new evidence was . . . only weak impeachment evidence”
• “An assertion of innocence — even a ‘swift change of heart after the plea’ — does not constitute a ‘fair and just reason’ to grant withdrawal.”
• “The plea of guilty is a solemn act not to be disregarded because of belated misgivings about [its] wisdom.”
• “Whether we classify this as prejudice to the government, or prejudice to the complaining victim, it is real prejudice, caused by the timing of [the defendant’s] guilty plea and subsequent attempts to withdraw.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).