United States v. William James Becker

On this appeal, appellant complains of ineompetency of his retained counsel, denial of his request to change his plea of guilty to that of not guilty, and failure of the district court to permit him his right of allocution before imposition of sentence.

A review of the record does not indicate that appellant’s retained counsel was ineffective. See United States v. Rubin, 5 Cir., 1970, 433 F.2d 442 (decided Oct. 30, 1970); Odom v. United States, 5 Cir., 1967, 377 F.2d 853, 859. Neither was there an abuse of discretion by the district court in denying the appellant the right to withdraw his…