Opinion ID: 349677
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Heading: Prior Plea Bargain and Indictment Delay.

Text: 48 Appellant makes two other contentions in this appeal. First, he claims that a prior plea bargain, entered with respect to the charges of conspiracy to import and distribute and assaulting a federal officer, barred this prosecution. We have already reviewed and rejected this same argument in a prior appeal by appellant. There we concluded that the district judge had not abused his discretion in denying appellant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea. United States v. Lambros, 544 F.2d 962 (8th Cir. 1976). We see no reason to alter that determination. Nothing in the record indicates that the Government possessed knowledge about crimes appellant planned to commit after the plea bargain of April 22, 1976. 49 Finally, appellant argues that, because he was not indicted until seventy-six days after his arrest, provisions in the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161-74 (Supp.1975), which Minnesota federal district judges have incorporated into their own plan for prompt disposition of criminal cases, require dismissal of the charges against appellant. This contention lacks any merit. The plan incorporated time limits specified in the statute in advance of the effective dates set forth in that statute. But in doing so, the Minnesota judges expressly provided that failure to comply with the time limits prescribed herein shall not require dismissal of the prosecution. Plan for Prompt Disposition of Criminal Cases of the District of Minnesota § III(1)(d) (1976). 50 Finding no prejudicial error, we affirm the conviction of appellant on all three counts.