Opinion ID: 2810983
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Heading: Mr. Williams’s Motion

Text: Mr. Williams next filed a pro se “Motion to Withdraw and Nullify Guilty Plea” (the Motion) with the district court on January 17, 2012, which is the subject of this appeal. In the Motion, he argued that “the same officers [involved in the corruption investigation had] engaged in the same type of illegal conduct during the investigation, searches and seizures [in Mr. Williams’s case,]” and that this conduct resulted in Mr. Williams’s guilty plea. Mr. Williams attached evidence undermining the testimony of the DEA agent used to support the drug quantity findings at Mr. Williams’s sentencing.2 In addition, Mr. Williams attached his own affidavit in which he claimed Tulsa officers conducted searches without probable cause, coerced testimony regarding the gun charge, and seized less methamphetamine than they reported. Mr. Williams further stated that he was pressured to plead guilty because his counsel advised him the government was planning to file a Fourth Superseding Indictment which would add a continuing criminal enterprise (CCE) charge against Mr. Williams and would name Mr. Williams’s younger sister as a codefendant. 2 In compiling the appendix on appeal, the government failed to include the transcript of the district court’s evidentiary hearing and did not include some of the exhibits containing exculpatory evidence that Mr. Williams provided to the district court. Nevertheless, we exercise our authority to consider documents filed with the district court but not contained in the appendix. Milligan-Hitt v. Bd. of Trs. of Sheridan Cnty. Sch. Dist. No. 2, 523 F.3d 1219, 1231 (10th Cir. 2008); see 10th Cir. R. 30. We also remind the government of its obligation to submit an appendix that is “sufficient for considering and deciding the issues on appeal,” 10th Cir. R. 30.1(A)(1). 6