United States v. Bibler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[a]n appeal waiver will not apply if . . . the sentence violates the law”
• recognizing that an appeal waiver will not be enforced where the sentence imposed is illegal or unconstitutional
• observing that a waiver of appellate rights will not apply if a defendant’s sentence is “illegal,” which includes a sentence that “violates the Constitution”
• defining an illegal sentence as a sentence that “exceeds the permissible statutory penalty for the crime 2 or violates the Constitution”
• “An appeal waiver will not apply if . . . the sentence violates the law.”
• “A sentence is illegal if it exceeds the permissible statutory penalty for the crime or violates the Constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).