The federal court finds that that a notary public’s two former counsel’s performance of their professional obligations in plea negotiations and at the change-of-plea hearing was not deficient. In a written decision denying Liang Li’s motion to allow him to withdraw his guilty...

The federal court has imposed a sentence of probation and home detention on a notary public after he pleaded guilty to lying in another person’s U.S. passport application. At a sentencing hearing last Friday, Liang Li was sentenced to two years of probation, with six months to be...

Assistant U.S. attorney James J. Benedetto has asserted that the allegations of a notary public that his previous lawyers threatened or forced him to plead guilty are “patently false” and even “surreal.” In opposing Liang Li’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea, Benedetto said...

U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has denied a notary public’s request to withdraw his guilty plea to an indictment that charged him with lying in a U.S. passport application. At a motion hearing that adjourned Wednesday evening, Manglona said a...