Travis Bessey v. United States

Whether a district court can elicit and record a defendant’s guilty plea before advising him of any constitutional and appellate rights, because the plea cannot therefore be knowing, intelligent and voluntary?

Whether a court of appeals may affirm a life-equivalent, within-Guidelines sentence without meaningfully reviewing whether the sentence is “sufficient, but not greater than necessary” under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).