United States v. Frank Feichtinger

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• \[A]n improper application of the guidelines is not a reason to invalidate a knowing and voluntary waiver of appeal rights.\
• “The right to appeal is a statutory right, and like other rights—even constitutional rights—which a defendant may waive, it can be waived in a plea agreement.”
• an appeal waiver “will not be enforced if a sentencing judge relied on impermissible facts (such as a defendant’s race
• a sentence in excess of the statutory maximum sentence for the defendant’s crime invalidates sentence, notwithstanding defendant’s stipula- tion waiving his right to appeal
• “an improper application of the guidelines is not a reason to invalidate a knowing and voluntary waiver of appeal rights.”
• When a defendant signs a voluntary appeal waiver in his plea agreement, the district court’s improper application of the guidelines does not allow us to bypass the waiver and review a defendant’s claim.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).