NEW YORK – So, I’m not sure what Darren Mack was thinking when he asked District Judge Douglas Herndon to let him withdraw his guilty plea. And I’m not surprised that the judge denied the do-over.

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After four days of testimony, the judge ruled that Mack had accepted the plea deal voluntarily. And that he knew the legal ramifications when he pleaded guilty to murdering his wife and when he entered the equivalent of a no contest plea on the attempted murder in the shooting of Family Court Judge Chuck Weller in Reno, Nevada.

I gotta say, Darren Mack impresses me as a very smart man. Way smarter than most criminal defendants. So I’m thinking Judge Herndon got it right.

But Mack’s attorney filed an immediate appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court. And Darren’s brother, Landon Mack, is criticizing the ruling, saying Heardon is biased toward the two defense lawyers who worked the plea deal.

I’m open to what they have to say and that’s why on Wednesday Landon Mack will join me on Best Defense to make his brother’s case. Until then, that’s the Last Word.

– Jami Floyd, In Session anchor