United States v. De Vaughn

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• holding that government waived the preclusive effect of defendant’s guilty plea by not arguing waiver in its opening brief on appeal
• holding that because the defendant did “not even tr[y] to show how the alleged errors were ‘plain,’” the court did not need to reach the merits
• recognizing that guilty plea precludes direct inquiry into as-applied constitutional claim
• observing that if the Supreme Court had resolved Blackledge and Menna on jurisdictional grounds then the Court would have dismissed them for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
• noting that Blackledge does not “speak[] in terms of jurisdiction” and instead “merely carved out [an] exception[] for [a] type[] of constitutional claim[]”
• observing that “we have an independent duty to examine our own jurisdiction” (quoting Amazon, Inc. v. Dirt Camp, Inc., 273 F.3d 1271, 1274 (10th Cir. 2001))

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