United States v. Lonnie Ray Moulder Walter Steven Heiden

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

Primarily at issue is whether, after a defendant’s plea-agreement-based-eonviction is vacated on the basis that the conduct supporting the plea is no longer considered criminal, the Government may reinstate charges dismissed previously, pursuant to that plea agreement, when those putative charges pertain to criminal conduct linked with that which supported the agreement. In holding that the Government may do so, we AFFIRM.

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Lonnie Ray Moulder and Walter Stephen Heiden were arrested in 1994 when methamphetamine was found in their vehicle. A suitcase in the…