Corral
United States v. Corral
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM *
Defendant Corral was sentenced in November 1996 for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. On appeal in April 1999, we remanded the case for re-sentencing. Corral was re-sentenced in November 2000. Corral now claims that 1) the trial court should have conducted an on-the-record inquiry into his assertion of an attorney-client conflict and that the trial court’s referral of the change-of-counsel motion to defense counsel did not satisfy the court’s inquiry obligation; 2) the trial court lost jurisdiction by failing to inquire into the attorney-client conflict; 3) the trial court committed reversible error by asking defense counsel whether the defendant was guilty of the charge to which he was pleading guilty; 4) defense counsel violated his Sixth Amendment right by stating that Corral was guilty of the charge to which he was pleading guilty; and 5) the prosecution violated his due process rights when it allowed perjury at the resentencing hearing.
I
Corral did not raise his challenges surrounding the trial court’s failure to rule on the change-of-counsel motion to the trial court. Instead, Corral stated to the trial court at his change-of-plea hearing in May…