United States v. Cindy Gabbard Adams, A/K/A Cindy Sanchez

After a guilty plea, the district court convicted defendant Cindy Gabbard Adams of misprision of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4 and sentenced the defendant to a term of imprisonment. On appeal, Adams complains that the record contains an inadequate factual basis for her guilty plea. Although we agree that the district court did not establish a factual basis for Adams’s plea in full compliance with Rule 11(f), we find this failure to be harmless error. Accordingly, we affirm.

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

During the 1970s, Ramon Dionicio Martinez, also known as “Jose Luis Sanchez” and…