United States of America, Cross-Appellant/appellee v. Ivy Nelson Fountain, Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• holding that a defendant's guilty plea was valid despite the district court's failure to inform him that it could later be used to enhance a sentence for a different crime
• “There is no ambiguity in the directive contained in section 994(h).”
• an error not argued to the district court is grounds for reversal only if the error “prejudices the substantial rights of the defendant and would result in a miscarriage of justice if left uncorrected”
• “an error not argued to the district court is grounds for reversal only if the error prejudices the substantial rights of the defendant and would result in a miscarriage of justice if left uncorrected”
• \There is no ambiguity in the directive contained in section 994(h).\

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