131182P.pdf   10/21/2014  United States  v.  Fred Thompson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-1182
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Fargo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Colloton, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant did not waive the right to 
   challenge the voluntariness of his guilty plea; the district court's 
   failure to advise defendant during his plea hearing that he still faced a 
   potential life sentence on one of the counts was plain error; assuming for 
   purposes of discussion that the district court's comments at the plea 
   constituted improper participation in plea negotiations in violation of 
   Rule 11 and that the error was plain, defendant has failed to demonstrate 
   a reasonable probability that but for the cited errors, he would not have 
   entered a guilty plea, and he was not entitled to relief.