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No. 13-4180
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore.
Richard D. Bennett, District Judge.
(1:12-cr-00248-RDB-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
On
trial,
what
Lavon
violation
Richard
of
aggravated
would
18
1028A(a)(1) (2012).
been
Caldwell
U.S.C.
identity
have
pled
1344
theft,
the
district
fourth
guilty
(2012),
in
day
to
and
violation
of
jury
bank
fraud,
in
four
counts
of
of
18
U.S.C.
the
court
impermissibly
engaged
in
plea
court
accepting
his
guilty
plea.
Finding
no
reversible
error, we affirm.
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1) prohibits
the
district
This
prohibition
diminishes
plea;
court
it
the
from
participating
serv[es]
possibility
protects
against
three
of
in
plea
principal
judicial
unfairness
interests:
coercion
and
negotiations.
of
partiality
it
guilty
in
the
Id. at 462.
district
court
Caldwell
must
improperly
participated
demonstrate
that
the
in
plea
courts
negotiations,
participation
was
error, that the error was plain, that the error affected his
substantial
would
rights,
seriously
reputation
of
and
that
affect
judicial
the
refusal
fairness,
proceedings.
to
notice
integrity,
Id.;
see
the
or
error
public
Henderson
v.
without
deciding,
that
the
district
court
has
failed
to
affected
his
substantial
demonstrate
rights.
that
A
the
courts
defendants
error
substantial
decision
to
plead
guilty
and
impaired
his
ability
to
In
2009).
Here,
Caldwell
asserts
only
that
his
substantial
He does
the
district
courts
record
that
he
would
not
have
pled
relief.
Accordingly, we deny Caldwells motion to file a pro
se supplemental brief and affirm the district courts judgment.
We
dispense
contentions
with
are
oral
argument
adequately
because
presented
in
the
facts
and
the
materials
legal
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED