Commonwealth v. McCool

CAIAZZA, J.,

The defendant, Michael McCool, was charged with certain violations of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code: viz., burglary, receiving *326stolen property, and two counts of criminal conspiracy. Having entered a guilty plea, the defendant appeared before the court for sentencing on July 8, 1992. At that time he requested permission to withdraw the guilty plea; in that regard, the attorney for the Commonwealth stated that there would be no resultant prejudice to the prosecution if the court granted the defendant’s request to withdraw the guilty plea. However, in response to the defendant’s…