Court: Boston cop who pleaded guilty to being a corrupt scumbag can't withdraw his plea

A federal appeals court has rejected disgraced drug-dealer protector Kiko Pulido's request for a new trial on grounds he was mislead into pleading guilty last year to a variety of corruption charges that left him facing 26 years in federal prison.

In an appeal, Pulido argued he was mislead by his former lawyer into pleading guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence of only 15 years and that when he was sentenced to 26 years - which includes five years on a parallel gun charge - the judge should have let him withdraw his plea. Also, the judge was biased against him because he called Pulido "a thoroughly corrupt police officer" in another case involving a co-defendant and failed to take into account a mitigating factor - that Pulido was a steroid user.

In its ruling today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals writes Pulido is full of it because he was asked point blank in court - several times, in different ways - if he had been promised a plea-bargain agreement and each time, he answered no, he had not.

As for the judge's alleged prejudicial bias, the court ruled there was none because the judge - who told Pulido to his face he was a disgrace to the badge of the nation's oldest police department - was basing his opinion of Pulido's conduct on evidence presented against him at the trials. And, the court ruled, the judge did consider the mitigating evidence - but as was his right, he rejected it.