UNITED STATES v. LAU

No. 67 Cr. 191.

287 F.Supp. 653 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America v. Ching S. LAU, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., S. D. of New York, New York City, for the United States; Roger J. Hawke and Lars I. Kulleseid, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel.

Irving Younger, New York City, for defendant; Elliot A. Taikeff, New York City, of counsel.


MEMORANDUM

COOPER, District Judge.

The defendant seeks to be relieved of his plea of guilty entered of record on April 4, 1968 before this Court and an order that the sentence imposed on May 9, 1968 be vacated. It is his position that at the time of plea he was not aware that willfulness was an essential element of the offense involved; and that he was lulled into a sense of security by the assurances of his attorney, who then stood beside him, that a "deal...

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