NATION IN BRIEF : WEST VIRGINIA : Ex-Gov. Moore Asks to Change His Plea

Lawyers for former West Virginia Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. said he was pressured into pleading guilty to five federal corruption charges and wants to withdraw the pleas. The Justice Department will ask U.S. District Judge Walter Hoffman to deny Moore’s request to rescind his guilty pleas and sentence him July 10, U.S. Atty. Michael Carey said in Charleston, W. Va. Moore’s lawyer filed a motion claiming prosecutors gave Moore, a former three-term Republican governor, one day to consider a plea bargain and threatened to lodge at least 28 charges against him if he did not agree.