Denson v. United States

Appellant, who on November 15, 2003, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child sexual abuse,1 one count of unlawful possession of PCP,2 and one count of unlawful possession of ammunition,3 now seeks reversal of the trial court’s denial of his pre-sentence motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Appellate counsel has advanced a shifting array of arguments in support of this request. Because none of them has merit, we affirm.

The underlying facts of this case are described at length in the government’s brief. In summary, appellant, at the time of his guilty plea, admitted to sexually…