United States v. Santiago-Rivera, No. 14-2022 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to nine counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. The district court accepted the plea. Ten days before the scheduled sentencing hearing, Defendant filed a motion requesting leave to withdraw his guilty plea. The motion was denied without a hearing. Defendant later moved for reconsideration, but the district court denied the motion. Defendant appealed, asking the First Circuit to remand to the district court for an evidentiary hearing on his reconsideration motion to withdraw his guilty plea. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a further evidentiary hearing beyond what was done at sentencing; and (2) any technical error regarding the potential length of sentence that Defendant faced was neither plain nor prejudicial.
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