UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE,
v.
GERSON NAGELBERG, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT
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Cooperation with governmental authorities is not, by itself, a sufficient ground to justify withdrawal of a guilty plea.
Appellant pleaded guilty to narcotics violations and later moved to withdraw his plea based on subsequent cooperation with the government. The trial c…
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PER CURIAM.
On July 18, 1962, appellant withdrew an earlier plea of not guilty, and voluntarily entered a plea of guilty to all three counts of an indictment alleging narcotics violations. Four months thereafter, following several adjournments of sentencing, he moved to withdraw the guilty plea on the grounds that he had subsequently cooperated with and been of assistance to governmental authorities. Finding that such cooperation would not, by itself, justify withdrawal of the plea, Judge Murphy denied the motion. Before appellant was finally sentenced to the statutory minimum of five years on each count (the sentences to run concurrently), and eight months after the entry of the plea of guilty, the motion was renewed on the same grounds, and was once again denied.
Appellant’s willingness to be of assistance to the government is not a sufficient basis for permitting his plea of guilty to be withdrawn. Furthermore, appellant has never denied his guilt nor asserted that his plea was improperly induced or extracted, United States v. Nor-strand Corp., 168 F. 2d 481 (2nd Cir. 1948), although an unusually long period of time elapsed between July 18, 1962, when the guilty plea was entered, and March 18, 1963, the sentencing day.
We find no merit in appellant’s other contentions. The judgment of conviction is affirmed.
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