United States Fourth Circuit

The standard of review for forfeited errors, i.e., assertions of error raised for the first time on appeal, in a plea agreement under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11, is the plain error analysis and not the harmless error standard.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2002
• Published 01/17/2002

Judges

• Before LUTTIG, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Paul Craig Pooley, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Clifton Thomas Barrett, Assistant United States Attorney/Chief, Criminal Division, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Walter C. Holton, Jr., United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.