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No. 14-4615
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt.
Peter J. Messitte, Senior District
Judge. (8:12-cr-00628-PJM-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
March 3, 2015
PER CURIAM:
Shola
Risikat
Balogun
pled
guilty
to
conspiracy
to
On appeal her
386
meritorious
grounds
district
court
U.S.
738
for
imposed
(1967),
appeal,
an
stating
but
that
there
questioning
unreasonable
are
whether
sentence
by
no
the
not
defendant
may
waive
the
right
to
appeal
if
that
Fed.
R.
enforceable.
Crim.
P.
11,
the
waiver
is
both
valid
and
Cir. 2005); United States v. Wessells, 936 F.2d 165, 167-68 (4th
Cir. 1991).
2005).
her
conviction.
As
noted
above,
Baloguns
plea
hearing
v. Martinez, 277 F.3d 517, 525 (4th Cir. 2002) (noting plain
error
review
district
standard
court
to
when
withdraw
defendant
guilty
did
plea);
not
move
United
in
the
States
v.
accordance
of
the
with
record
in
Anders,
this
we
case
have
and
reviewed
have
found
the
no
counsel
inform
Balogun,
in
the
petition
the
Supreme
Court
of
review.
If
Balogun
requests
writing,
that
United
a
of
the
States
petition
be
right
for
to
further
filed,
but
may
move
representation.
in
this
court
for
leave
to
withdraw
from
before
the
court
and
argument
would
not
aid
the
decisional process.
DISMISSED IN PART;
AFFIRMED IN PART