Pierce v. United States

BELSON, Senior Judge:

Appellant contends that the trial court conducted an inadequate inquiry prior to accepting appellant’s pleas of guilty to second degree murder and another contemporaneous offense, and that the court subsequently abused its discretion when it declined to conclude that it would have been fair and just to permit appellant to withdraw his guilty plea. We disagree with appellant’s contentions, and affirm.

I

On February 12, 1990, appellant Bruce D. Pierce pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree while armed and mayhem while armed for the November 1988 stabbing of Deanna…