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  Craig won't attend hearing on guilty plea
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Last EditedThomas Walker  Sep 25, 2007 04:53pm
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News DateTuesday, September 25, 2007 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionWASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Minnesota judge will be hearing Sen. Larry Craig's petition to overturn his guilty plea on a disorderly conduct charge in Minneapolis on Wednesday, but the Idaho Republican will not be at the hearing.

Sen. Larry Craig is seeking to overturn his guilty plea stemming from an airport bathroom sex sting.

"I have been advised not to. I will not be attending," Craig said.

Craig was arrested June 11 during a police sting in an airport men's room for allegedly making sexual overtures to an undercover male police officer. He entered a written guilty plea to the disorderly conduct charge in August.

In his petition to vacate the plea, Craig's attorney maintained the senator's "panic" over the possibility that the allegations would be made public drove him to accept a guilty plea without seeking legal advice and that he had been assured by the arresting officer that the matter would remain private.
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