United States v. Francisco Antonio Gil-Quezada

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• finding that the court, at the change-of-plea hearing, did not mislead when it stated that the defendant could appeal “under some circumstances”
• explaining that, under Teeter, “even if the plea agreement and the change-of-plea colloquy pass muster, we will not enforce the waiver if doing so would work a miscarriage of justice”
• noting that appellate waivers must be entered into “knowingly and voluntarily” and may not be enforced-.if doing so would “work a miscarriage of justice”
• “The miscarriage of justice exception requires a strong showing of innocence, unfairness, or the like.”
• judge's comments at later disposition hearing have no bearing on extent of any waiver made at prior plea hearing but may \shed light upon the defendant's understanding at that time\
• \Do you understand that by entering into this plea agreement you may have waived or given up your right to appeal or collaterally attack all or part of the sentence?\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).