United States v. Davila-Ruiz

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d)(1) provides that a defendant may withdraw a guilty plea “for any reason or no reason” at any time before the court accepts it. The matter at hand requires us to decide a question of first impression in this circuit concerning the operation of this rule. The district court thought that the defendant’s execution of a plea agreement, his consent to have a magistrate judge conduct the change-of-plea colloquy, his subsequent participation in such a hearing, the magistrate judge’s recommendation that the tendered plea be accepted, and…