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192068P.pdf 06/08/2020 United States v. Jevonne Coleman
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-2068
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Dubuque
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Melloy and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant's guilty plea was neither knowing
nor intelligent under Rehaif because he did not have real notice of the
true nature of the charge against him; the plea also violated Rule 11
because the district court did not advise him of the knowledge-of-status
element established by Rehaif and did not examine the record to determine
if there was a factual basis for finding such knowledge; defendant's
constitutionally invalid plea was not structural error and a defendant can
only satisfy plain-error review by showing that the error affected his or
her substantial rights; defendant failed to show that either the
constitutional error or the Rule 11 error affected his substantial right,
and he is not entitled to relief on plain-error review.