Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Stephen WALSH, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-04-26
Citations: 647 F. App'x 34
Docket Number: No. 14-4420-cr
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Stephen WALSH, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: PRESENT: AMALYA L. KEARSE, JOSÉ A. CABRANES and DENNY CHIN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 647
Pages: 34–35

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Stephen WALSH, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 14-4420-cr.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
April 26, 2016.
Jessica A. Masella (Anna M. Skotko, on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys, for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for the United States of America.
Sarita Kedia, Sarita Kedia Law Offices, New York, NY, Marc Fernich & Jonathan Savella, Law Office of Marc Fernich, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.
PRESENT: AMALYA L. KEARSE, JOSÉ A. CABRANES and DENNY CHIN, Circuit Judges.
The Clerk of Court is instructed to amend the caption of this appeal as indicated above.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
• Defendant-appellant Stephen Walsh ("Walsh") appeals from the - District Court's November 19, 2014 judgment, which was signed on November 18, 2014, and which imposed a principal sentence of 240 months' imprisonment. The District Court's written judgment followed an identical oral sentence that it imposed during an October 29, 2014 sentencing hearing.
The crux of Walsh's argument on appeal is that the District Court "arrest[ed] the October 29 [sentencing] hearing and in-vit[ed] a plea withdrawal motion . [,] only to pronounce the ultimate sentence weeks later via electronic docket entry," thereby "infring[ing] . [his] fundamental rights" under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure "that sentence be imposed in open court, in the presence of the accused, his counsel and any spectators that wish to attend." Def.'s Br. 8-9.
We find Walsh's argument unpersuasive. The transcript of the October 29 sentencing hearing establishes beyond any doubt that Walsh was, in fact, sentenced in open court on that date, and not, as he claims, "in camera" on November 19, when judgment was formally entered. See A-61 ("[A]t this time, I sentence you . to 20 years in prison. To be followed by three years of supervised release."); A-62 (requiring that Walsh stand, and stating again, "I sentence you to 20 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release"). That the District Court may have mistakenly implied that it had the authority to entertain a post-sentencing motion to withdraw Walsh's guilty plea, see Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(e) ("After the court imposes sentence, the defendant many not withdraw a plea of guilty ., and the plea may be set aside only on direct appeal or collateral attack."), does not change that fact.
CONCLUSION
We have considered all of Walsh's arguments on appeal and found them to be without merit. Accordingly, the November 19, 2014 judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED.