United States v. Dennis L. Wenger

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• stating that “[i]f the agreement is voluntary and taken in compliance with Rule 11, then the waiver ... must be honored”
• sentencing appeal waivers are presumed valid where the underlying plea is valid
• “Defendants who appeal from sentences following plea agreements always point to unanticipated ... developments,” (emphasis in original)
• “[Defendant] exchanged the right to appeal for prosecutorial concessions; he cannot have his cake and eat it too.”
• \[Defendant] exchanged the right to appeal for prosecutorial concessions; he cannot have his cake and eat it too.\
• “[A] defendant inclined against appeal or willing to forgo it—perhaps to put an unpleasant episode behind him more quickly—may obtain a concession from the prosecutor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).