United States v. Leon Tabory

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

Leon Tabory appeals his conviction, on a plea of guilty, of smuggling 2600 pounds of marijuana into the United States. 1 Tabory complains that the court failed to advise him that by pleading guilty he waived his privilege against self-incrimination; that his plea was not made voluntarily and intelligently; and that the court should have permitted him to withdraw his plea before sentencing. Finding no merit in these assignments of error, we affirm,

Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires a district court to ascertain whether a defendant’s guilty plea…