No. 14-4865
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Frank D. Whitney, Chief
District Judge. (3:13-cr-00248-FDW-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Pursuant to a written plea agreement, Nkhenge Shropshire pled
guilty to conspiracy to impede the Internal Revenue Service, in
violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 (2012), and making a false statement
on a loan application, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2, 1014 (2012).
With Shropshires consent, a magistrate judge conducted a Fed. R.
Crim. P. 11 hearing and accepted her guilty pleas.
Shropshire
sole
issue
Shropshire
raises
on
appeal
is
that,
in
held
that
the
magistrate
judges
acceptance
of
424, 433 (4th Cir. 2008); cf. Harden, 758 F.3d at 891 (noting that
F.3d 304, 311 (4th Cir. 2005) (A decision of a panel of this court
becomes the law of the circuit and is binding on other panels
unless it is overruled by a subsequent en banc opinion of this
court or a superseding contrary decision of the Supreme Court.
(internal quotation marks omitted)).
Accordingly,
we
reject
Shropshires
challenge
to
the