United States v. John Lee

Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 is a "guilty-plea safeguard[ ]" for the right to appeal, United States v. Ruiz , 536 U.S. 622, 631, 122 S.Ct. 2450, 153 L.Ed.2d 586 (2002), a right "fundamental to the protection of life and liberty and therefore a necessary ingredient of due process of law," Griffin v. Illinois , 351 U.S. 12, 20, 76 S.Ct. 585, 100 L.Ed. 891 (1956) (Frankfurter, J., concurring). Among the rights of which the district court "must inform the defendant" prior to accepting a guilty plea is "the terms of any plea-agreement provision waiving the right to appeal or to…