083912P.pdf   10/15/2009  United States  v.  Jeron Seward
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-3912
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and Hansen, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Where defendant's plea was not the
   product of negotiations with the government and was a plea to the court,
   the court's questions regarding the circumstances of defendant's plea are
   not covered by Rule 11(c)'s prohibitions on judicial participation in plea
   agreements; district court could rely on defendant's false statement
   during the plea colloquy in deciding to impose an enhancement for
   obstruction of justice and use of the statement did not violate defendant's
   right against self-incrimination.