Legal Opinion
United States v. Rich
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 2, 2015No. 12-cr-424 (ADS)Published
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
SPATT, District Judge.
Presently pending before the Court is a motion by the Defendant James J. Rich, Jr., also known as “Chip” (the “Defendant”), for the withdrawal of his guilty plea to Count One of the Superseding Indictment and to dismiss Counts One through Three of that Indictment.
I. BACKGROUND
The following facts are generally undisputed and, in any event, in this decision, the Court makes no findings of fact.
In early 2012, a confidential informant advised the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) that the Defendant had sold crack cocaine to him on several occasions.…
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