United States v. Theodore Persico, Robert Zambardi, and Richard Fusco

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• noting a district court properly assessed a pre-sentence motion to withdraw a plea in light of the strength of the evidence against him
• rejecting as “totally unlikely speculation” the argument that a criminal defendant would have risked receiving a longer sentence at trial instead of pleading guilty “on a prediction that the disclosed information would be both admissible and significantly helpful”
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that withheld information was material, thereby justifying the withdrawal of his plea, because his argument “rest[ed] on a sequence of hypothetical events all of which are highly speculative and most unlikely to have occurred.”
• “If the evidence would not have been admissible, it obviously would not have had any influence on the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).