Well, see, he had already pleaded guilty. I had to cop a plea one time, and you have to go in there and stand before the judge, and he gets all officious and gruff, like HE’LL be the judge of whether he accepts this plea agreement, as if it isn’t an every day part of the system. So theoretically the judge CAN say too late, they can’t drop, arguments are over, guilty plea signed, either he’s guilty as charged or he perjured himself. Turning a blind eye to the coercion, the withholding of exculpatory material (Brady material), and the lack of a crime to begin with. But yeah, that is, I assume, how he’s justifying himself.
OK thanks, though I thought he withdrew the guilty plea. Not important, it will shake out however it shakes out, like everything else.