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No. 13-4453
a/k/a
Lisa
Ellen
Meyers,
a/k/a
Lisa
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Columbia.
Cameron McGowan Currie, District
Judge. (3:12-cr-00430-CMC-10)
Submitted:
GREGORY,
Decided:
Circuit
Judges,
and
HAMILTON,
PER CURIAM:
Lisa
sentencing
Bifield
her
to
appeals
eighty-four
the
district
months
courts
judgment
imprisonment.
Bifield
pursuant
to
agreement.
the
waiver
Bifield
intelligently
waive
of
appellate
contends
her
that
right
she
to
rights
did
appeal
in
not
and
her
plea
knowingly
that
her
and
trial
We
the
extent
Bifield
asserts
that
she
did
not
F.2d
114,
116,
119-20
(4th
1991).
Bifield
also
contends that she did not knowingly waive her appellate rights.
Pursuant
to
plea
agreement,
defendant
may
waive
her
appellate rights.
appealed
is
within
the
scope
2
of
the
waiver.
United
States
v.
Blick,
appellate
waiver
408
is
F.3d
162,
valid
if
168
the
(4th
Cir.
defendant
2005).
An
knowingly
and
we
Manigan,
the
totality
of
the
circumstances.
An important factor
410
F.3d
137,
151
(4th
Cir.
2005).
The
question
Manigan, 592
F.3d at 626.
Bifield contends that her waiver was not knowing and
intelligent.
district
court
waiver during
right
to
understood
adequately
the
appeal
the
Rule
her
11
explained
the
implications
colloquy
with
regard
sentence.
waiver
as
Bifield
explained
and
to
stated
had
no
of
the
Bifields
that
she
questions
Bifields
claims
of
ineffective
assistance
of
trial
appeal
conclusively
because
appear
on
ineffective
this
record.
assistance
Bifield
must
does
not
bring
her
part
and
affirm
the
conviction.
We
dispense
with
oral