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Date Created: 2015-02-27 18:00:31.021289+00
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AMENDED ALD-090                                                NOT PRECEDENTIAL

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
                                 ___________

                                       No. 14-2689
                                       ___________

                            UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                                             v.

                               CONCETTA JACKSON,
                                             Appellant
                       ____________________________________

                     On Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
                           (D.C. Crim. No. 2:07-cr-00040-002)
                     District Judge: Honorable Lawrence F. Stengel
                      ____________________________________

                   Submitted for Possible Summary Action Pursuant to
                        Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6
                                    January 23, 2015

            Before: RENDELL, CHAGARES and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges

                            (Opinion filed: February 27, 2015)
                                        _________

                                        OPINION*
                                        _________

PER CURIAM

       Pro se appellant Concetta Jackson seeks this Court’s review of the United States

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s denial of her second motion to

*
 This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not
constitute binding precedent.
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withdraw her guilty plea and obtain a court-appointed attorney. Because Jackson’s

appeal presents no substantial question, we will summarily affirm the District Court’s

order.

                                             I.

          In September 2008, Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of using a minor to

produce visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct. In her plea agreement, she waived

her right to appeal or collaterally challenge her conviction or sentence. She was

subsequently sentenced to 300 months. Despite her waiver, she filed a direct appeal, a 28

U.S.C. § 2255 motion, and an application for permission to file a second or successive §

2255 motion. All were unsuccessful.

         Then, in August 2013, Jackson filed a motion to withdraw her guilty plea and

obtain a court-appointed attorney, which the District Court denied. Upon Jackson’s

appeal, we summarily affirmed the District Court’s decision. See United States v.

Jackson, 549 F. App’x 61, 62 (3d Cir. 2014) (per curiam).

         In April 2014, Jackson filed a second motion to withdraw her guilty plea and

obtain a court-appointed attorney. She also requested an evidentiary hearing. Jackson’s

2014 motion, while lengthier than her 2013 motion, set forth the same grounds for

withdrawing her guilty plea that she advanced in her 2013 motion. The District Court

denied the new motion in an April 15, 2014 order, relying on the same reasons that it

gave in its order denying her 2013 motion. Jackson then filed a timely notice of appeal

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and a response to the Clerk’s notice that her appeal was subject to possible summary

action.1

                                             II.

       We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and will summarily affirm the

District Court’s order if there is no substantial question presented in the appeal. See 3d

Cir. I.O.P. 10.6.

       We find no error in the District Court’s decision to deny Jackson’s latest motion.

The District Court noted that Jackson had already challenged her conviction and sentence

with a direct appeal and a § 2255 motion, and correctly concluded that she may no longer

file a motion to withdraw her guilty plea. See Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(e). We upheld the

District Court’s earlier denial on this basis, and we see no reason to take a different

approach here. Accordingly, we will summarily affirm the District Court’s order. See 3d

Cir. I.O.P. 10.6.

1
 Jackson also filed a document apparently requesting that we reverse the “no-contact
with her children” provision of her sentence, which she states is unconstitutional. We
have already issued an opinion agreeing with the District Court that “Jackson waived any
challenge to her sentence and that her challenge [to the no-contact provision] is
meritless.” See United States v. Jackson, 549 F. App’x 117, 118 (3d Cir. 2014) (per
curiam). We decline to revisit Jackson’s arguments on this issue.
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