United States v. Austin Hillman Marks

FAGG, Circuit Judge.

Having pleaded guilty to traveling in interstate commerce in a murder-for-hire scheme, Austin Hillman Marks challenges the district court’s compliance with Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Marks also claims for the first time on appeal that his trial counsel failed to provide effective assistance. We affirm.

Marks claims the district court did not adequately question him about the medications he was taking to ensure that he was mentally competent to enter a knowing and intelligent guilty plea. See Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(d). Marks’s contention is foreclosed by…