United States v. Wilfred Walker Leyland

After a jury convicted him on conspiracy and drug possession charges stemming from a 1993 indictment, Wilfred Walker Leyland pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge contained in a separate 1991 indictment. After the district court accepted his guilty plea on the 1991 indictment but before it sentenced him, Leyland moved to withdraw his plea and to dismiss the 1991 indictment on double jeopardy grounds. The United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Richard J. Arcara, /.), denied the motion, finding that Leyland waived his double jeopardy claims when he waited to raise…