Legal Opinion
United States v. Sanford R. Morrison
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 16, 1992No. 91-2759PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
This direct appeal raises a difficult issue under Rule 32(d) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure — whether the district court 1 abused its discretion in denying, without an evidentiary hearing, Sanford R. Morrison’s pre-sentence motion to withdraw his plea of guilty to attempted sexual abuse on the ground that the Presentence Report contained newly discovered evidence that the prosecuting witness had recanted. We conclude that, on the particular facts of this case, the district court properly balanced the competing interests of the person accused and the victim of…
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