UNITED STATES v. BARKER

Nos. 73-2185 to 73-2188.

514 F.2d 208 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America v. Bernard L. BARKER, a/k/a Frank or Fran Carter, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Eugenio R. MARTINEZ, a/k/a Gene or Jene Valdes, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Frank A. STURGIS, a/k/a Frank Angelo Fiorini, a/k/a Edward J. Hamilton, a/k/a Joseph DiAlberto or D'Alberto, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Virgilio R. GONZALEZ, a/k/a Raul or Raoul Godoy or Goboy, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1975.

Certiorari Denied June 9, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Schultz, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Robert L. Palmer, Asst. Special Prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, with whom Leon Jaworski, Special Prosecutor at the time the brief was filed, Philip A. Lacovara, Counsel to the Special Prosecutor, and Sidney M. Glazer, Kenneth S. Geller, and David H. Kaye, Asst. Special Prosecutors, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT, McGOWAN, LEVENTHAL, ROBINSON, MacKINNON and WILKEY, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


Certiorari Denied June 9, 1975. See 95 S.Ct. 2420.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Appellants challenge denial by the District Court of their motions to withdraw guilty pleas to seven counts of an indictment arising out of the now-famous "Watergate Break-in." We affirm. We find in the court's action a proper exercise of its discretion under Rule 32(d), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.1

I. THE PROCEEDINGS

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