United States v. Barker

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

Appellants were the foot soldiers of the Watergate Break-in. They came to the affair from the anti-Castro movement, centered in Miami’s Cuban-American community, and from a long history of service in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)…